{"id":9518,"date":"2022-01-01T07:02:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=9518"},"modified":"2022-01-01T07:02:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T12:02:54","slug":"wright-john-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wright-john-wheeler\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright, John Wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">John Wheeler Wright, the last surviving child of John Wilson and Wilma Dale (Wheeler) Wright, passed away at the age of 93 following an extended illness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">John was born and grew up in Detroit and attended\u00a0Mackenzie High School.\u00a0\u00a0In 1945 he joined the US Navy where he studied electrical engineering.\u00a0\u00a0Most of his professional career was spent with AT&amp;T, but he\u2019d always loved to work with his hands.\u00a0\u00a0After retiring from the \u201cphone company\u201d he worked in construction and over the years built several houses \u2013 the last of which he finished at the age of 74.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">He was a licensed minister and performed numerous wedding ceremonies. Prior to his extended illness he enjoyed woodworking as a hobby.\u00a0\u00a0John marched to his own beat.\u00a0\u00a0He loved meeting new people and telling stories.\u00a0\u00a0As a lifelong vegetarian and self-described \u201chealth nut\u201d anyone who knew him would describe him as \u201ca real character.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">John was preceded in death by his son Jack Wright and is survived by his sons John (Virginia) Wright of Dearborn Heights, MI; Joe (Sherry) Wright of Niota, TN; his daughters Crystal (Randolph) Bassett of Snellville, GA; Tarrell Wright of Plainview, NE; Kendall Oliver (Jim) of Asheville, NC; Andrea (Darrial) Marshall of Linden, TN; Peggy (Douglas) Glover of Starke, FL; and Corryn Wright-Stasko (Robert) of Barberton, OH; and his many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">A private memorial service is planned for the family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In lieu of flowers, the family asks donations be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)\u00a0 Adair Funeral &amp; Cremation Services is assisting the family with arrangements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wheeler Wright, the last surviving child of John Wilson and Wilma Dale (Wheeler) Wright, passed away at the age of 93 following an extended illness.\u00a0 John was born and grew up in Detroit and attended\u00a0Mackenzie High School.\u00a0\u00a0In 1945 he joined the US Navy where he studied electrical engineering.\u00a0\u00a0Most of his professional career was spent with AT&amp;T, but he\u2019d always&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wright-john-wheeler\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3254],"tags":[1289,4719,675,683,5069,496,654,5068],"class_list":["post-9518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adair-funeral-home","tag-bassett","tag-glover","tag-marshall","tag-oliver","tag-stasko","tag-wheeler","tag-wright","tag-wright-stasko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}