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Submitted: 8/3/22 • Approved: 8/4/22 • Last Updated: 8/7/22 • R529340-G529339-S3
Clyde D. Wright
January 19, 1879-February 24, 1955
Leila G. Gregg Wright
May 13, 1884-December 16, 1955
*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary Clyde D. Wright
Burial services for Judge Clyde Wright, former Hereford resident and Deaf Smith County Judge, who died Thursday afternoon at his home in Silverton, will be held on Sunday afternoon at West Park cemetery at 5 o'clock. The Masonic Lodge, of which Judge Wright was a member will be in charge of the service.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the First Baptist Church in Silverton. The pastor of the Presbyterian Church will conduct the rites.
Judge Wright was born in January 1879 and was married to Lela Gregg in Hereford in 1910.
He served as county attorney for Deaf Smith County and was also county judge for a number of years.
At the time of his death Judge Wright was county attorney of Briscoe County. He was active in a number of civic organizations.
Survivors include his wife, Lela Gregg Wright of Silverton, one daughter, Alva Omby of Phoenix, Ariz., one son, Jack of Raleigh, N.C., four grandchildren and one sister. He was also a brother-in-law of Mrs. W.E. Dameron and Harry Seed of Hereford.
(Published in The Sunday Brand, Vol. 7 - No. 35, Hereford, Texas, Sunday, February 27, 1955, Page 1)
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Texas, Marriage Index, 1824-2014
Name: Clyde D. Wright
Marriage Date: 15 Jun 1910
Marriage Place: Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Spouse: Lela Earle Gregg
U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
Name: Clyde Davis Wright
Gender: Male
Residence Age: 63
Birth Date: 19 Jan 1879
Residence Date: 1942
Residence Place: Silverton, Texas, USA
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Clyde D. Wright
Death Date: 24 Feb 1955
Death County: Briscoe
Certificate: 11104
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Clyde D Wright
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 77
Birth Date: 19 Jan 1878
Birth Place: Milford, Texas
Residence: Silverton, Briscoe, Texas, USA
Death Date: 24 Feb 1955
Death Place: Silverton, Briscoe, Texas, USA
Father: John Wright
Mother: Florence Tate
*Obituary Leila Gregg Wright
Burial rites for Mrs. Leila Wright of Silverton will be held here in West Park Cemetery Monday afternoon following funeral services held in Silverton at 10 a.m.
Mrs. Wright died at her home in Silverton Friday morning following a heart attack. She is survived by a son, Jack of Raleigh, N.C., and a daughter, Mrs. Harold Owenby of Phoenix, Ariz. She is also survived by two sisters; Mrs. W.E. Dameron of Hereford and Mrs. J.E. Beyer Jr., of Hutchinson, Kans.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Clyde Wright, whose burial rites were conducted in West Park Cemetery Feb. 27, 1955.
Mrs. Wright, the former Miss Leila Gregg, was married to Clyde Wright in 1910 in Hereford. While they were here both were active in civic and church circles and he was serving as Deaf Smith County Judge when the present court house was built.
They moved to Oregon from Hereford and later to Silverton where he practiced law until shortly before his death. Both were actively engaged in civic affairs and in the Presbyterian Church work in Silverton.
(Published in The Sunday Brand, Vol. 8 - No. 25, Hereford, Texas, Sunday, December 18, 1955, Page 1)
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Texas, Marriage Index, 1824-2014
Name: Lela Earle Gregg
Marriage Date: 15 Jun 1910
Marriage Place: Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Spouse: Clyde D. Wright
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Leila Earle Wright
[Leila Earle Gregg]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 71
Birth Date: 13 May 1884
Birth Place: California
Residence: Silverton, Briscoe, Texas, USA
Death Date: 16 Dec 1955
Death Place: Silverton, Briscoe, Texas, USA
Father: Austin W Gregg
Mother: Effi Cromwell
Contributed on 8/3/22 by neldapat
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