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WICHITA FALLS - Robert H. "Bob" Wright, 62, formerly of Amarillo died Thursday, July 4, 2002.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday in Hampton Vaughan Crestview Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Rhea Raines of South Georgia Baptist Church in Amarillo officiating. Burial will be in Crestview Memorial Park.
Mr. Wright was born Jan. 5, 1940, in Mangum, Okla., to Stanley and Alice M. Anchuetz Wright. He graduated from Mangum High School in 1957, moved to Pampa for two years, then to Amarillo where he went to work for Santa Fe Railroad as a conductor in 1959.
During his career he served as a local chairman for Local 1313. Later he was voted vice general chairman of United Transportation Union. He married Sue Black in Tucumcari, N.M., in 1980.
They moved to Overland Park, Kan., from 1980-1983. He then moved back to Amarillo to care for ailing parents and to be closer to his children and grandchildren.
He enjoyed travel, boating, family, friends and most of all, his beloved grandchildren. He moved to Wichita Falls in late 1989 and made it his home.
He helped establish the Redken Distributor Associate Store. He was forced to take disability and retire from all activities in 1994, when he began a lengthy battle with stomach cancer.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Stanley and Alice Wright; and a sister, Carol Jean Wright.
Survivors include his wife; a son, Bryn Craig Wright and wife, Suzie, of Amarillo; a daughter, Rhonda L. King and husband, Mike, of Vernon; a brother, Stanley Wright Jr. and wife, Marcia, of Fort Worth; a sister, Betty Lou Faldlen and husband, Oscar, of Yukon, Okla.; a grandson, Michael King and wife, Carrie, of Vernon; a granddaughter, Tiffani "Princess" King of Vernon; a great-grandson, Michael Trevor King of Vernon; and several nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews and family friends.
The family suggests memorials be to Hospice of Wichita Falls.
Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
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