Extracted from The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Thursday, August 21, 1997

WALTER M. WRIGHT JR.

WALTER M. WRIGHT JR., 76, of Memphis, retired pilot for Republic Air Lines, died Tuesday at Saint Francis Hospital of heart failure and complications from heart surgery. Services will be at noon Friday at Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel with burial in Memorial Park.

Mr. Wright, the husband of Elizabeth Wright, also leaves two sons, James M. Wright of Huntley, Ill., and Walter Gary Wright of Cordova, and two grandchildren.

The family requests that any memorials be sent to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.