Obit of Robert H. "Bob" Wright (w623) - Canadian County, Oklahoma 14 Aug 2002

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Robert H. "Bob" Wright

WICHITA FALLS - Robert H. "Bob" Wright, 62, formerly of Amarillo died 
Thursday, July 4, 2002.

Services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday in Hampton Vaughan Crestview 
Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Rhea Raines of South Georgia 
Baptist Church in Amarillo officiating. Burial will be in Crestview 
Memorial Park.

Mr. Wright was born Jan. 5, 1940, in Mangum, Okla., to Stanley and 
Alice M. Anchuetz Wright. He graduated from Mangum High School in 
1957, moved to Pampa for two years, then to Amarillo where he went to 
work for Santa Fe Railroad as a conductor in 1959.

During his career he served as a local chairman for Local 1313. Later 
he was voted vice general chairman of United Transportation Union. He 
married Sue Black in Tucumcari, N.M., in 1980.

They moved to Overland Park, Kan., from 1980-1983. He then moved back 
to Amarillo to care for ailing parents and to be closer to his 
children and grandchildren.

He enjoyed travel, boating, family, friends and most of all, his 
beloved grandchildren. He moved to Wichita Falls in late 1989 and 
made it his home.

He helped establish the Redken Distributor Associate Store. He was 
forced to take disability and retire from all activities in 1994, 
when he began a lengthy battle with stomach cancer.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Stanley and Alice Wright; 
and a sister, Carol Jean Wright.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Bryn Craig Wright and wife, Suzie, 
of Amarillo; a daughter, Rhonda L. King and husband, Mike, of Vernon; 
a brother, Stanley Wright Jr. and wife, Marcia, of Fort Worth; a 
sister, Betty Lou Faldlen and husband, Oscar, of Yukon, Okla.; a 
grandson, Michael King and wife, Carrie, of Vernon; a granddaughter, 
Tiffani "Princess" King of Vernon; a great-grandson, Michael Trevor 
King of Vernon; and several nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-
nephews and family friends.

The family suggests memorials be to Hospice of Wichita Falls.

Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Amarillo Globe-News, July 5, 2002