Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Monday, April 24, 1967

THOMAS W. WRIGHT

SPRINGHILL -- Thomas W. Wright of Springhill, 48, died Saturday in the Veterans Hospital in Shreveport after a lengthy illness.

Funeral services will be in the First Baptist Church in Springhill at 2 p.m. Monday with the Rev. Perry Purtle officiating. Burial will be in the Springhill Cemetery under the direction of the Bailey Mortuary.

Mr. Wright was a veteran of World War II, and a member of the Sunset Acres Baptist Church in Shreveport.

Survivors are his mother, Mrs. Octavia Elizabeth Wright of Springhill; two sons, Thomas W. Wright, II, and William R. Wright, both of Shreveport; four sisters, Mrs. B. B. Jones of Shreveport, Mrs. J. A. Sanders of Springhill, Mrs. E. C. Wills of Dallas, Tex., Mrs. J. B. Davidson of Shreveport.