Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Friday, May 28, 1976

WRIGHT, EDGAR H.

Died Wednesday, May 26, 1976, at Lane Memorial Hospital, Zachary. He was 64, a native of Manifest and a resident of Baker. He was a retired pipefitter and a member of Local 198.

Body at Wooddale Memorial Chapel with visiting hours from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday. Religious services at 2 p.m. Friday at the First Baptist Church, Baker, conducted by the Rev. Allen C. Johnson. Interment in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Baker.

Survived by his wife, Mrs. Louise P. Wright, Baker; two daughters, Miss Susan Carol Wright, Kentucky, and Mrs. Fay Theresa Soileau, Baker; a son, Edgar Louis Wright, Ohio; a step-son, Roger William Wise, Bogalusa; three sisters, Mrs. Ena Dunn, Mrs. Lizzie Pentecost and Mrs. Lois Harrell, all of Jonesville; a brother, Oscar Wright, Alexandria, Va.; and five grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be nephews and Mrs. Wright's brothers.

He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Baker.