This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wright, Wood, Jones, Kendall, Lindberg, Wank Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QFB.2ACE/1461 Message Board Post: Mr. James L. Wright, age 70, of Bellevue, died Monday, July 3, 2000 at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo. Mr. Wright was born on November 6, 1929 in Battle Creek, the son of Clare J. and Gertrude E. (Wood) Wright. He was raised in the Augusta and South East Barry County areas and attended the Moore rural school and Hastings schools, graduating in 1947 from Hastings High School. Mr. Wright was a United States Army veteran of the Korean Conflict where he served as "Forward Observer" in Korea, receiving his training for this duty in Ft. Sill, Oklahoma and in Japan. He was married to R. Gwendolyn Jones on July 1, 1951, and she survives. In January of 1968 he founded the "D-K" Fence Company. Had previously worked for Sears and Roebuck Company in Battle Creek where he worked in the Farm Division as a salesman for 15 years where he developed the fence department. Mr. Wright was a member and past board member of the Dowling Country Chapel, member Bedford Area Lions Club, me! mber-past officer-and Inductee of the Hall of Fame, International Fence Industry Association, instrumental in establishing the certification program for the International Fence Association, 15 year board of education member, first at the Pleasantview school and then Hastings Board of Education, member Hastings Band Boosters, long-time 4-H Leader, last official Justice of the Peace for Assyria Township and a member of the Assyria Township Board of Review. He was preceded in death by his parents; son, E. David Wright on June 26, 1982; brothers, Ronald Clare, Hugh Duane and Phillip David Wright. Mr. Wright is also survived by daughters, Lorraine K. Kendall of Battle Creek, Nola E. (Bruce) Lindberg of Dowling, and Julie Ann Wright of Bellevue; son James C. (Linda) Wright of Hastings; son-in-law, Gary Wank of Dowling; and nine grandchildren. Funeral Services for James were held on Saturday, July 8, 2000 at Dowling Country Chapel - Unted Methodist Church. Reverend DeAnn J. Do! bbs officiated. Burial was at the Union Cemetery, Maple Grove Townshi p, Barry County with military honors. Memorial contributions may be made to the Huntington's Disease Society of America or Dowling Country Chapel. Arrangements were made by Wren Funeral Home of Hastings. (The Hastings "Reminder" - Tuesday, July 11, 2000) Transcriber has no family connection.