Hudson County NJ Archives Obituaries.....George Grant WRIGHT, October 20, 1935
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Hudson Dispatch, Union City, Oct. 23, 1935
OFFICIALS ATTEND WRIGHT’S SERVICES

Police, officials from the surrounding municipalities and many employees from 
the Hudson County Courthouse paid final tribute yesterday afternoon to Grant 
Wright, landscape painter and illustrator, who died Sunday morning at his home, 
327 Park Avenue, Weehawken, following a brief illness of pneumonia.

The services were at 3 o’clock in the chapel of the Leber Funeral Home, 
Boulevard and 70th Street, Union City.  Cremation followed in the New York and 
New Jersey Crematory.  Officiating at the services was Rev. Robert Clarke, 
pastor of the Church of the Transfiguration, North Bergen.

Among those present were Mayor John B. Meister, of Weehawken; Boulevard 
Commissioner Harry Vanderbach; County Register William Sullivan; Leo P. 
Carroll. Township clerk of Weehawken; Police Chief August Klassen, of 
Weehawken; Captain Michael Lyons, of Weehawken; Patrick Dunn, of the Weehawken 
Boare of Education; Committeemen Henry Negel, James Healey, and Thomas A. 
Donlan and Patrolman Harry Kelleyman and Larry Hessner,  There were more than 
100 persons at the service.

A delegation from the New Jersey Art Group, headed by Peter Fiordalisi, 
president, attended.  The Art Group, to which the painter belonged, also sent a 
wreath, on which was inscribed a dedication to “One of our most devoted 
members.”  Wright recently exhibited a “One Man Show” of his collected 
paintings at the West New York public library, under auspices of the art group.


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