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Submitted: 9/29/21 • Approved: 9/29/21 • Last Updated: 10/2/21 • R459864-G459862-S3
Sam J.
1902-1981
Gertrude
1910-1999
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Sam
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Samuel Wright
Death Date: 12 May 1981
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Samuel Jefferson Wright
Birth Date: 17 Feb 1902
Birth Place: Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Fritch, Hutchinson, Texas
Spouse: Gertrude Shillings
Father: Zekel Wright
Mother: Benia Mae Buffington
Age at Death: 79
Death Date: 12 May 1981
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
*Obituary Gertrude
FRITCH - Gertrude E. Wright, 89, died Friday, Sept. 24, 1999.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Monday in Brown Funeral Directors Chapel of the Fountains in Borger. The Rev. Trey Robertson, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery in Borger.
Mrs. Wright was a native of Guymon, Okla., and had lived in Fritch for 22 years. She was a Methodist.
Both her husband, Samuel J. "Dick" Wright, and her son, James Robert Wright, died in 1981.
Survivors include a daughter, Willa Mae Heath of Albuquerque, N.M.; a sister, Josephine Hammon of Oklahoma City; three grandchildren; and four great grandchildren.
(Published in Amarillo Globe News - September 26, 1999)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Gertrude Elizabeth Wright
Death Date: 24 Sep 1999
Death County: Hutchinson
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Gertrude Wright
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 20 Feb 1910
Death Date: 24 Sep 1999
Claim Date: 15 Jan 1972
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