Jessie Welch Wright (-1935)

WRIGHT, WELCH

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 10/11/2008 at 09:35:14

AMES DAILY TRIBUNE AND TIMES, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Tuesday, October 29, 1935.

JESSIE W WRIGHT IS VICTIM OF INJURIES

Mrs. Jessie Welch Wright, English instructor and tutor at Iowa State college for several years, died Monday in a Martinsdale, Ind. hospital of injuries sustained in an auto crash a week ago.

Funeral services will be held at the Foster funeral home in Webster City Thursday at 2 p. m., with burial in the Graceland cemetery there. The Rev. R. B. Davidson, pastor of the Ames Baptist church, of which Mrs. Wright was a member, will be in charge.

Mrs. Wright is survived by her husband, Thomas J. Wright, to whom she was married last July. The couple had been making their home in Indiana.