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BRISCOE — Jerry Arthur Wright, 67, of Briscoe, formerly of Canyon, died Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015.
Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Polk Street United Methodist Church in Amarillo with the Rev. Kevin Deckard, associate pastor, officiating. Arrangements are by Brooks Funeral Directors of Canyon.
Jerry Arthur Wright was born Feb. 4, 1948, in Pampa to J.D. and Mary Ruth Crouch Wright. He graduated from Pampa High School in 1966 and from West Texas State University in 1973 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He married Alice Jean Skaggs on Jan. 24, 1970.
He worked for Levi Strauss from 1970 to 1974, and then worked for Farm Bureau Insurance Co. from June 1974 to July 2011. He was the agency manager for Randall County Farm Bureau for 37 years, retiring in 2011. Jerry was a lifetime member of Amarillo Gun Club and Canyon Masonic Lodge, where he was a 32nd degree Mason. He also was president of Randall County Jr. Livestock Buyers Club.
He was preceded in death by his father, J.D. Wright Jr., in 1978.
Survivors include his wife, Alice Jean Wright; two sons, Matt Wright and Michelle Hill of Amarillo and Jay Wright and wife Amy of Dallas; four grandchildren, Isaac, Josiah, Olivia and Hadassah Wright, all of Dallas; his mother, Mary Ruth Crouch Wright of Goodrich; three sisters, Mary Ann Shockey and husband Linville of Cordell, Okla., Shirley Greene and husband Lem of White Deer and Linda Gail O’Neal and husband Harry of Goodrich; and a brother, James Dee Wright and wife Wilda of Dimmitt.
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Dennis Scott
Jerry and I grew up together in the same neighborhood, went to school together from Woodrow Wilson Elementary all the way to conclusion at Pampa High. I regretted to learn he lived in Canyon, and I never did cross paths in either Amarillo or Canyon. By great concidence, I had been in Pampa on September 30th of this year with engineers from Energy Transfer for lunch. On the way back to their office, we took a short cut across the railroad tracks near Jerry's boyhood home. I looked over and thought to myself, there's Jerry Wright's home. We used to meet at his house on our way to the baseball park at Optimist Park to practice baseball. The next night I opened my email at home to find Jerry had passed away that very day. I started asking my Canyon friends about Jerry, and everyone I spoke to had such great things to say about him. Then seems like just a short time later, maybe another month or two, when we lost Linda Hubbard. To lose them both is a big blow this close to our Reunion. May God keep them both in Peace in HIs Arms.