This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wright Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yYB.2ACI/14995.1 Message Board Post: 4/17/1940 Under "Deaths" WRIGHT--Frank, 59, 1172 Lisle street, Tuesday 5/26/1945 Under "Deaths and Funerals" Paul R. Wright Word has been received in Columbus of the death of Paul R. Wright, 38, formerly of Columbus, April 29, in Santa Monica, Calif. Mr. Wright was a realtor in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood. Surviving are his wife, Pauline O'Dell Wright, and his mother, Mrs. Katherine Wright. 6/21/1945 Local Deaths Rev. Porter E. Wright, Sr. Dies in Lancaster Hospital The Rev. Delbert S. Mills, paster of Avondale United Brethren Church, will officiate at the funeral of the Rev. Porter E. Wright, Sr., 65, pastor of Mills Memorial U. B. Church, Lancaster, for 16 years, and a former superintendent of the Southeast Ohio Conference, who died in Lancaster City Hospital Wednesday after a few weeks' illness. The services will be held at 10 a. m. Saturday in the Mills Memorial Church, Lancaster, with the Rev. Spurgeon Metzler of Chicago, Rev. A. B. Cox of Newark and the Rev. H. O. Davis, Bremen, assisting. The following ministers will serve as honorary pallbearers: The Rev. E. B. White of Portsmouth, Rev. B. C. Rife of Columbus, Rev. O. W. Smith of Ashville, Rev. Dewey Whitwell of Nashville, Tenn., the Rev. Merle Holcomb, Bremen, and the Rev. H. O. Thompson, Chillicothe. Interment will be at Newark. Before entering the ministry Rev. Mr. Wright was a school teacher and a professional baseball player. He was awarded an honorary degree of doctor of divinity by Otterebin [sic] College Westerville. A veteran of the Spanish-American War, Dr. Wright is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jennie Wright; son, the Rev. P. E. Wright, Jr., paster of the U. B. Church at Carroll; four daughters, Mrs. A. C. LeBlanc and Mrs. H. B. Duffy of Newark, Miss Opal Wright, Columbus, and Miss Geraldine Wright, at home; a sister, Mrs. John Eliker, Van Wert, and a brother, the Rev. W. H. Wright, Knoxville, Tenn. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Frank E. Smith Funeral Home, Lancaster.