From Joplin Globe, November 22, 1958: "W. W. (Will) Wright, widely known Carthage insurance and real estate agent and member of a prominent Carthage family, died unexpectedly at 4:30 o'clock Friday afternoon in the Wright home, 1051 South Garrison Avenue [Carthage MO].
Mr. Wright was at his office Friday morning. After lunch at his home he bacame ill from a heart seizure and died of a recurring attack. Mr. Wright had suffered from a heart condition some time but had remained active. He attended the Carthage Rotary Club dinner Thursday night at the Drake Hotel.
The Wright-Gibbons Agency of which he was the senior partner has just completed moving its office into the present Bank of Carthage building [SW corner of Main & 2nd] from the Caffee building [NW corner of Main & 2nd] where it had been located since its founding by Mr. Wright 13 years ago. The Caffee building is to be razed to make way for a new Bank of Carthage building [now Jasper County Annex building].
Mr. Wright was born August 23, 1882, at Connersville, Ind. in 1889, when he was 7 years old, he moved to Carthage with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Wright. The father was associated with J. W. Ground and W. R. Logan in operation of the early day Troupe Mine at Puerto Rico. In 1892, Mr. Wright and Mr. Logan organized the Carthage Stone, one of the early day Carthage quarry firms, which just now is in the process of voluntary dissolution. Curtis Wright built the large resident at 304 West Macon street, which is now the A. L. McCawley home [now found in Eureka Springs, AR and known as the Queen Anne Mansion].
Will Wright was educated in Carthage schools, and was graduated from Carthage High School and later attended the University of Illinois. As a young man he went to Guthrie, Okla., where he was secretary and business manager of the Southwestern Supply Company. June 15, 1910, he was married in Carthage to Miss Flora Caffee.
They returned to Carthage from Guthrie in 1912 and Mr. Wright because assocated with Millard Bryan in the quarry business. After the quarry consolidation in 1927 [Carthage Marble Coporation], Mr. Wright was secretary of the Jasper County Building & Loan Association and in 1915 opened the insurance and real estate agency. James Gibbons of Carthage became associated with Mr. Wright and the firm name became Gibbons-Wright Agency July 1, 1956.
Mr. Wright was a member of Grace Episcopal church and for 22 years served as its treasurer. He was a member of the Carthage Rotary Club and a realtor [Carthag Board of Realtors].
Surviving are the widow; two daughters, Miss Elizabeth Wright of the home who is elementary music supervisor in the Carthage schools, and Mrs. Alan Bailey [Helen Wright Bailey], Tripoli, Libay; three sisters, Mrs. George Hench and Mrs. Marian Powers, Carthage, and Mss Nira Wright of Joplin; two brothers, Curtis Wright of Oakland, Calif., and Robert C. Wright, Carthage, route 2; and two granchildren [Sue Bailey and Mary Helen Wright]. Funeral arrangements will be announce by Knell Mortuary."
Other business affliations listed in Carthage Press obiturary: F. W. Steadley quarry, Consolidated Marble and Stone Company (with Bryan mentioned above), and Carswell Manufacturing Company.
Mr. Wright was at his office Friday morning. After lunch at his home he bacame ill from a heart seizure and died of a recurring attack. Mr. Wright had suffered from a heart condition some time but had remained active. He attended the Carthage Rotary Club dinner Thursday night at the Drake Hotel.
The Wright-Gibbons Agency of which he was the senior partner has just completed moving its office into the present Bank of Carthage building [SW corner of Main & 2nd] from the Caffee building [NW corner of Main & 2nd] where it had been located since its founding by Mr. Wright 13 years ago. The Caffee building is to be razed to make way for a new Bank of Carthage building [now Jasper County Annex building].
Mr. Wright was born August 23, 1882, at Connersville, Ind. in 1889, when he was 7 years old, he moved to Carthage with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Wright. The father was associated with J. W. Ground and W. R. Logan in operation of the early day Troupe Mine at Puerto Rico. In 1892, Mr. Wright and Mr. Logan organized the Carthage Stone, one of the early day Carthage quarry firms, which just now is in the process of voluntary dissolution. Curtis Wright built the large resident at 304 West Macon street, which is now the A. L. McCawley home [now found in Eureka Springs, AR and known as the Queen Anne Mansion].
Will Wright was educated in Carthage schools, and was graduated from Carthage High School and later attended the University of Illinois. As a young man he went to Guthrie, Okla., where he was secretary and business manager of the Southwestern Supply Company. June 15, 1910, he was married in Carthage to Miss Flora Caffee.
They returned to Carthage from Guthrie in 1912 and Mr. Wright because assocated with Millard Bryan in the quarry business. After the quarry consolidation in 1927 [Carthage Marble Coporation], Mr. Wright was secretary of the Jasper County Building & Loan Association and in 1915 opened the insurance and real estate agency. James Gibbons of Carthage became associated with Mr. Wright and the firm name became Gibbons-Wright Agency July 1, 1956.
Mr. Wright was a member of Grace Episcopal church and for 22 years served as its treasurer. He was a member of the Carthage Rotary Club and a realtor [Carthag Board of Realtors].
Surviving are the widow; two daughters, Miss Elizabeth Wright of the home who is elementary music supervisor in the Carthage schools, and Mrs. Alan Bailey [Helen Wright Bailey], Tripoli, Libay; three sisters, Mrs. George Hench and Mrs. Marian Powers, Carthage, and Mss Nira Wright of Joplin; two brothers, Curtis Wright of Oakland, Calif., and Robert C. Wright, Carthage, route 2; and two granchildren [Sue Bailey and Mary Helen Wright]. Funeral arrangements will be announce by Knell Mortuary."
Other business affliations listed in Carthage Press obiturary: F. W. Steadley quarry, Consolidated Marble and Stone Company (with Bryan mentioned above), and Carswell Manufacturing Company.
From Joplin Globe, November 22, 1958: "W. W. (Will) Wright, widely known Carthage insurance and real estate agent and member of a prominent Carthage family, died unexpectedly at 4:30 o'clock Friday afternoon in the Wright home, 1051 South Garrison Avenue [Carthage MO].
Mr. Wright was at his office Friday morning. After lunch at his home he bacame ill from a heart seizure and died of a recurring attack. Mr. Wright had suffered from a heart condition some time but had remained active. He attended the Carthage Rotary Club dinner Thursday night at the Drake Hotel.
The Wright-Gibbons Agency of which he was the senior partner has just completed moving its office into the present Bank of Carthage building [SW corner of Main & 2nd] from the Caffee building [NW corner of Main & 2nd] where it had been located since its founding by Mr. Wright 13 years ago. The Caffee building is to be razed to make way for a new Bank of Carthage building [now Jasper County Annex building].
Mr. Wright was born August 23, 1882, at Connersville, Ind. in 1889, when he was 7 years old, he moved to Carthage with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Wright. The father was associated with J. W. Ground and W. R. Logan in operation of the early day Troupe Mine at Puerto Rico. In 1892, Mr. Wright and Mr. Logan organized the Carthage Stone, one of the early day Carthage quarry firms, which just now is in the process of voluntary dissolution. Curtis Wright built the large resident at 304 West Macon street, which is now the A. L. McCawley home [now found in Eureka Springs, AR and known as the Queen Anne Mansion].
Will Wright was educated in Carthage schools, and was graduated from Carthage High School and later attended the University of Illinois. As a young man he went to Guthrie, Okla., where he was secretary and business manager of the Southwestern Supply Company. June 15, 1910, he was married in Carthage to Miss Flora Caffee.
They returned to Carthage from Guthrie in 1912 and Mr. Wright because assocated with Millard Bryan in the quarry business. After the quarry consolidation in 1927 [Carthage Marble Coporation], Mr. Wright was secretary of the Jasper County Building & Loan Association and in 1915 opened the insurance and real estate agency. James Gibbons of Carthage became associated with Mr. Wright and the firm name became Gibbons-Wright Agency July 1, 1956.
Mr. Wright was a member of Grace Episcopal church and for 22 years served as its treasurer. He was a member of the Carthage Rotary Club and a realtor [Carthag Board of Realtors].
Surviving are the widow; two daughters, Miss Elizabeth Wright of the home who is elementary music supervisor in the Carthage schools, and Mrs. Alan Bailey [Helen Wright Bailey], Tripoli, Libay; three sisters, Mrs. George Hench and Mrs. Marian Powers, Carthage, and Mss Nira Wright of Joplin; two brothers, Curtis Wright of Oakland, Calif., and Robert C. Wright, Carthage, route 2; and two granchildren [Sue Bailey and Mary Helen Wright]. Funeral arrangements will be announce by Knell Mortuary."
Other business affliations listed in Carthage Press obiturary: F. W. Steadley quarry, Consolidated Marble and Stone Company (with Bryan mentioned above), and Carswell Manufacturing Company.
Mr. Wright was at his office Friday morning. After lunch at his home he bacame ill from a heart seizure and died of a recurring attack. Mr. Wright had suffered from a heart condition some time but had remained active. He attended the Carthage Rotary Club dinner Thursday night at the Drake Hotel.
The Wright-Gibbons Agency of which he was the senior partner has just completed moving its office into the present Bank of Carthage building [SW corner of Main & 2nd] from the Caffee building [NW corner of Main & 2nd] where it had been located since its founding by Mr. Wright 13 years ago. The Caffee building is to be razed to make way for a new Bank of Carthage building [now Jasper County Annex building].
Mr. Wright was born August 23, 1882, at Connersville, Ind. in 1889, when he was 7 years old, he moved to Carthage with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Wright. The father was associated with J. W. Ground and W. R. Logan in operation of the early day Troupe Mine at Puerto Rico. In 1892, Mr. Wright and Mr. Logan organized the Carthage Stone, one of the early day Carthage quarry firms, which just now is in the process of voluntary dissolution. Curtis Wright built the large resident at 304 West Macon street, which is now the A. L. McCawley home [now found in Eureka Springs, AR and known as the Queen Anne Mansion].
Will Wright was educated in Carthage schools, and was graduated from Carthage High School and later attended the University of Illinois. As a young man he went to Guthrie, Okla., where he was secretary and business manager of the Southwestern Supply Company. June 15, 1910, he was married in Carthage to Miss Flora Caffee.
They returned to Carthage from Guthrie in 1912 and Mr. Wright because assocated with Millard Bryan in the quarry business. After the quarry consolidation in 1927 [Carthage Marble Coporation], Mr. Wright was secretary of the Jasper County Building & Loan Association and in 1915 opened the insurance and real estate agency. James Gibbons of Carthage became associated with Mr. Wright and the firm name became Gibbons-Wright Agency July 1, 1956.
Mr. Wright was a member of Grace Episcopal church and for 22 years served as its treasurer. He was a member of the Carthage Rotary Club and a realtor [Carthag Board of Realtors].
Surviving are the widow; two daughters, Miss Elizabeth Wright of the home who is elementary music supervisor in the Carthage schools, and Mrs. Alan Bailey [Helen Wright Bailey], Tripoli, Libay; three sisters, Mrs. George Hench and Mrs. Marian Powers, Carthage, and Mss Nira Wright of Joplin; two brothers, Curtis Wright of Oakland, Calif., and Robert C. Wright, Carthage, route 2; and two granchildren [Sue Bailey and Mary Helen Wright]. Funeral arrangements will be announce by Knell Mortuary."
Other business affliations listed in Carthage Press obiturary: F. W. Steadley quarry, Consolidated Marble and Stone Company (with Bryan mentioned above), and Carswell Manufacturing Company.
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