Wesley Wright

Mr. Wesley [Pete] Myrl Wright, 88 of Detroit, died in Heritage House of Paris on Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Chapel Services will be at 2:30pm on Thursday, February 23 in Wood Funeral Homes. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 1:30-2:30pm. Burial will follow services in Wright's Chapel Cemetery, north of Deport. Wesley was born on November 4, 1923 in the Wright's Chapel Community, north of Deport, the first child of Velma Obe and Gladys Lindsey Wright. He graduated from Deport High School in 1942. He served in the US Army Air Corps and the US Air Force from January 1943 until May 1965 attaining the rank of Chief Master Sergeant. He worked at Babcock & Wilcox twelve years. He was a volunteer at Regency Nursing Home from 1992 until 2008. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Detroit. He married Betty Smith in Detroit on February 14, 1976. He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister, Velma Garrison; two granddaughters, Dea Marie Wright in 1978 and Angela Faye Smith in 1991. Survivors are his wife; Betty of Detroit, one daughter, Jan Wright of Dallas; four sons, Donald O. Wright and wife, Judy of Calico Rock, Arkansas; Pete Wright and wife, Margie of Ore City; Jay Wright and wife, Dora of Colorado Springs, CO; Webb Wright of Cooper; one step-son Kirk Lewis Smith of Detroit; and adopted son, Jeffrey Craighead, US Army-Afghanistan; 10 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; the mother of his children, Helene Dunaway Hulsey; one sister, Wanda Howerton of Detroit; two brothers, William Wright of Ft. Worth and Sam Wright of Deport; a host of friends. Online condolences can be made to www.woodfuneralhomes.com