JAMES ALFRED WRIGHT, 83, of Millington, retired cotton and cattle
farmer, died Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. Services will
be at 10 a.m. Friday at First Baptist Church in Millington, where he was
a deacon and Sunday school teacher, with burial in Woodhaven Memory
Garden. Munford Funeral Home Millington Chapel has charge. He was a
graduate of Bartlett High School and the University of Tennessee at
Martin, director of Millington Housing Authority, a World War II veteran
and winner of the Memphis Mid-South, Tennessee and Alabama open chess
tournaments. Mr. Wright, the husband of Mary Virginia James Wright for
60 years, also leaves four daughters, Mary Lynn White of Covington,
Catherine Elaine Taylor of Como, Miss., Rebecca Margaret Crosier of
Cookeville, Tenn., and Marcia James Thorp of Memphis; a sister, Ruth
Conn of Memphis; a brother, Joseph E. Wright of Nashville, 10
grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. The family requests that any
memorials be sent to First Baptist Church building fund.
