Col. Edgar Wright Jr., U.S. Army retired, 89, of Paris, died Wednesday, February 20, 1997, at Heritage Care Center.
Friends of the Wright family can attend a memorial service at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Central Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Marvin Williams officiating.
The family will receive friends in the church fellowship hall following the service.
Interment will be in the Columbarium at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Wright was born October 19, 1907, in Paris, a son of Edgar Wright Sr. and Anne Viddito Roberts Wright.
He attended schools in Paris through the 11th grade and finished at the Marion Institute, Marion, AL, in preparation for West Point, from which he graduated as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in 1929.
He married Marjorie Marie Hetland of San Francisco on February 23, 1940, in Bradford, McKean County, PA. Wright, a direct descendant of George W. Wright, 'Father of Paris,' built his life around the values learned as a youth in Paris and the ideals of 'Duty, Honor, and Country from his West Point years.
During WW II he fought the Japanese invasion of the Philippines on Bataan, eluded capture, and became an American guerrilla, resisting the Japanese occupation.
In 1944 and 1945, he led a guerrilla force to assist the American invasion to liberate the Philippines.
He was decorated with the Legion of Merit for meritorious achievement, the Silver Star for valor and the Purple Heart for wounds received in combat.
He completed a 30-year military career as the assistant division commander of the 4th Infantry Division in 1959.
For the next 17 years, Wright was manager for security and safety of the Varian Associates, a major defense firm in Palo Alto, CA. In 1977, he and his wife Marjorie retired to Paris, where he occupied his time as the class leader of the senior's Bible study group at Central Presbyterian Church.
His final duty was to bid farewell to his wife, who passed away a week before him on February 13, 1997.
Surviving is two sons, Lt. Col. Edgar Wright III, U.S. Army retired, of Bedford, MA, West Point Class of 1966, and James Taril Wright, a manager with Sun Microsystems; a daughter, Taril Ann Wright, of Mountain View, CA; and two grandsons, Andrew Jeffrey Wright of Bedford, MA, and Travis William Wright of Alameda, CA; three nieces, Ms. Teresa Jan Wright of Paris, Ms. Jere Wright of Dallas and Mrs. Jan Collins of Washington.
THE PARIS NEWS, Sunday, February 23, 1997..
Friends of the Wright family can attend a memorial service at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Central Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Marvin Williams officiating.
The family will receive friends in the church fellowship hall following the service.
Interment will be in the Columbarium at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Wright was born October 19, 1907, in Paris, a son of Edgar Wright Sr. and Anne Viddito Roberts Wright.
He attended schools in Paris through the 11th grade and finished at the Marion Institute, Marion, AL, in preparation for West Point, from which he graduated as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in 1929.
He married Marjorie Marie Hetland of San Francisco on February 23, 1940, in Bradford, McKean County, PA. Wright, a direct descendant of George W. Wright, 'Father of Paris,' built his life around the values learned as a youth in Paris and the ideals of 'Duty, Honor, and Country from his West Point years.
During WW II he fought the Japanese invasion of the Philippines on Bataan, eluded capture, and became an American guerrilla, resisting the Japanese occupation.
In 1944 and 1945, he led a guerrilla force to assist the American invasion to liberate the Philippines.
He was decorated with the Legion of Merit for meritorious achievement, the Silver Star for valor and the Purple Heart for wounds received in combat.
He completed a 30-year military career as the assistant division commander of the 4th Infantry Division in 1959.
For the next 17 years, Wright was manager for security and safety of the Varian Associates, a major defense firm in Palo Alto, CA. In 1977, he and his wife Marjorie retired to Paris, where he occupied his time as the class leader of the senior's Bible study group at Central Presbyterian Church.
His final duty was to bid farewell to his wife, who passed away a week before him on February 13, 1997.
Surviving is two sons, Lt. Col. Edgar Wright III, U.S. Army retired, of Bedford, MA, West Point Class of 1966, and James Taril Wright, a manager with Sun Microsystems; a daughter, Taril Ann Wright, of Mountain View, CA; and two grandsons, Andrew Jeffrey Wright of Bedford, MA, and Travis William Wright of Alameda, CA; three nieces, Ms. Teresa Jan Wright of Paris, Ms. Jere Wright of Dallas and Mrs. Jan Collins of Washington.
THE PARIS NEWS, Sunday, February 23, 1997..
Col. Edgar Wright Jr., U.S. Army retired, 89, of Paris, died Wednesday, February 20, 1997, at Heritage Care Center.
Friends of the Wright family can attend a memorial service at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Central Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Marvin Williams officiating.
The family will receive friends in the church fellowship hall following the service.
Interment will be in the Columbarium at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Wright was born October 19, 1907, in Paris, a son of Edgar Wright Sr. and Anne Viddito Roberts Wright.
He attended schools in Paris through the 11th grade and finished at the Marion Institute, Marion, AL, in preparation for West Point, from which he graduated as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in 1929.
He married Marjorie Marie Hetland of San Francisco on February 23, 1940, in Bradford, McKean County, PA. Wright, a direct descendant of George W. Wright, 'Father of Paris,' built his life around the values learned as a youth in Paris and the ideals of 'Duty, Honor, and Country from his West Point years.
During WW II he fought the Japanese invasion of the Philippines on Bataan, eluded capture, and became an American guerrilla, resisting the Japanese occupation.
In 1944 and 1945, he led a guerrilla force to assist the American invasion to liberate the Philippines.
He was decorated with the Legion of Merit for meritorious achievement, the Silver Star for valor and the Purple Heart for wounds received in combat.
He completed a 30-year military career as the assistant division commander of the 4th Infantry Division in 1959.
For the next 17 years, Wright was manager for security and safety of the Varian Associates, a major defense firm in Palo Alto, CA. In 1977, he and his wife Marjorie retired to Paris, where he occupied his time as the class leader of the senior's Bible study group at Central Presbyterian Church.
His final duty was to bid farewell to his wife, who passed away a week before him on February 13, 1997.
Surviving is two sons, Lt. Col. Edgar Wright III, U.S. Army retired, of Bedford, MA, West Point Class of 1966, and James Taril Wright, a manager with Sun Microsystems; a daughter, Taril Ann Wright, of Mountain View, CA; and two grandsons, Andrew Jeffrey Wright of Bedford, MA, and Travis William Wright of Alameda, CA; three nieces, Ms. Teresa Jan Wright of Paris, Ms. Jere Wright of Dallas and Mrs. Jan Collins of Washington.
THE PARIS NEWS, Sunday, February 23, 1997..
Friends of the Wright family can attend a memorial service at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Central Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Marvin Williams officiating.
The family will receive friends in the church fellowship hall following the service.
Interment will be in the Columbarium at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Wright was born October 19, 1907, in Paris, a son of Edgar Wright Sr. and Anne Viddito Roberts Wright.
He attended schools in Paris through the 11th grade and finished at the Marion Institute, Marion, AL, in preparation for West Point, from which he graduated as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in 1929.
He married Marjorie Marie Hetland of San Francisco on February 23, 1940, in Bradford, McKean County, PA. Wright, a direct descendant of George W. Wright, 'Father of Paris,' built his life around the values learned as a youth in Paris and the ideals of 'Duty, Honor, and Country from his West Point years.
During WW II he fought the Japanese invasion of the Philippines on Bataan, eluded capture, and became an American guerrilla, resisting the Japanese occupation.
In 1944 and 1945, he led a guerrilla force to assist the American invasion to liberate the Philippines.
He was decorated with the Legion of Merit for meritorious achievement, the Silver Star for valor and the Purple Heart for wounds received in combat.
He completed a 30-year military career as the assistant division commander of the 4th Infantry Division in 1959.
For the next 17 years, Wright was manager for security and safety of the Varian Associates, a major defense firm in Palo Alto, CA. In 1977, he and his wife Marjorie retired to Paris, where he occupied his time as the class leader of the senior's Bible study group at Central Presbyterian Church.
His final duty was to bid farewell to his wife, who passed away a week before him on February 13, 1997.
Surviving is two sons, Lt. Col. Edgar Wright III, U.S. Army retired, of Bedford, MA, West Point Class of 1966, and James Taril Wright, a manager with Sun Microsystems; a daughter, Taril Ann Wright, of Mountain View, CA; and two grandsons, Andrew Jeffrey Wright of Bedford, MA, and Travis William Wright of Alameda, CA; three nieces, Ms. Teresa Jan Wright of Paris, Ms. Jere Wright of Dallas and Mrs. Jan Collins of Washington.
THE PARIS NEWS, Sunday, February 23, 1997..
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