Extracted from The Bastrop Daily Enterprise (Bastrop, LA)
Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Jimmie R. Wright

Services for Bishop Jimmie R. Wright, age 75, of Bastrop will be 10 a.m., December 3, 2009 at East Haven Church of God in Bastrop with Bishop David Sistrunk officiating, under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home, Rayville.

Bishop Wright pastored Church of God churches for 55 years in Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Mississippi and Georgia. He was preceded in death by wife of 46 years, Nancy Temple Wright in year 2000; parents, Alonzo and Lois Wright; sisters, Marjorie Phillips, Ozella Kyle and Miriam Ross; brother, John Wright and an infant brother and sister.

He is survived by his wife of nine years, Ruth Scroggins Wright of Bastrop; four daughters, Peggy and Steve Bray of Broken Bow, Okla., Pam and Shannon Ryburn of Anadarko, Okla., Melinda and Scott Jewell of Crowder, Okla. and Julie Heath of McAlester, Okla.; two sons, Jimmie Jr. and Lesa Wright of Grand Prairie, Texas and Tim and Renee' Wright of Broken Bow, Okla, and stepson- Mike and Lynn Scroggins of Bastrop; two sisters, Martha Roderick of Eastman, Ga. and Sandra Childers of Belvedere, SC; and two brothers, Leroy Wright of Au Gris, Mich. and Jack Wright of Eastman, Ga.;16 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Ministers of Church of God.