Suffolk City-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wright, Percy T. Sr., 1979 

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PERCY TAVIS WRIGHT 

   Percy Tavis Wright, Sr., 90, died Saturday in Guardian Care Nursing Home. 
He was the husband of the late Mrs. Gertie Pierce Wright and was a native of 
Nansemond County.

   He was the son of late Cornelius Washington and Etta Riddick Wright.

   He was an Army veteran of World War I and the oldest living member of 
Providence United Methodist Church and the Smith Volunteers.  He was a member 
of Suffolk Post 57, American Legion; Suffolk Barracks 1045, Veterans of World 
War I; and the Retired Men’s Club of the Virginia Peninsula.

   Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Irving Duck of Suffolk; a son, Percy T. 
Wright, Jr., of Starke, Fla.; two sisters, Mrs. Hazel Roberts and Mrs. Fred 
Baker of Norfolk; a brother, C. Wallace Wright of Suffolk; three 
grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

   A funeral will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Providence United Methodist 
Church by the Rev. Thomas Brown.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery, with 
R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral Home in charge.  His body will be taken from the 
funeral home to the church Tuesday at 1 p.m.  The family will be at the home 
of Mrs. Irving Duck, 422 Forest Hill Crescent.


Percy Tavis WRIGHT, Sr., Army veteran of WW-I, 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 1979, age 90, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block H, Plot 23*), Suffolk, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_v.txt 


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