Wright - Gladys McKinney
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 19 Nov 1970 p 4
NEWTOWN, Ind. (CNS) — Graveside services will be at 9 a.m. EST Friday at the Newtown Cemetery for Mrs. Gladys J. Wright, 74, of 725 Princess Dr., West Lafayette, a former Newtown resident, who was killed in an automobile crash on U.S. Highway 52 in Lafayette on Tuesday (Nov, 17, 1970) . Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the Newtown Presbyterian Church and at 2 p.m. at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in West Lafayette. Hippensteel Funeral Home of Lafayette is in charge of arrangements. She was a passenger in a car driven by her husband, the Rev. Leigh O. Wright, a retired associate pastor of the Purdue University Presbyterian Church in West Lafayette. Wright auto was pulling on to U.S. 52 from a trailer sales lot, when it was struck by a car driven by Charles F. Davis, 20, of Colfax, who was unable to avoid a collision and struck the right side of the Wright auto, according to police reports. The Rev. Mr. Wright is in satisfactory condition at Home Hospital in Lafayette with abrasions and contusion. Wrights had planned to leave Tuesday for Arizona. --typed by Walt W
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review, November 19, 1970
Mrs. Gladys Wright, of West Lafayette, a former Newtown resident, was killed in a two-car collision on U.S. Highway 52 at Lafayette at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 17, 1970). She was a passenger in a car driven by her husband, the Rev. Leigh Wright, who is hospitalized at Home Hospital in Lafayette. Mrs. Wright was born near Newtown in July of 1896, the daughter of Charles and Mary Miller McKinney. She was a graduate of Newtown High, Wooster College in Ohio and the Cincinnati School of Nursing. She married the Rev. Mr. Wright in June of 1922. They had resided in St. Louis, Mo., and in Ohio before moving to West Lafayette. They had resided there for the past 35 years, where he was a former pastor of the Purdue University Presbyterian Church. Survivors include her husband; two sons, Dr. Norman Wright in Ohio, and Dr. Kenneth Wright in New York; two daughters, Mrs. Relda Jean Johnson in Pottsdam, N.Y., and Mrs. Elinor Bousman in Santa Paula, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Fern Rowlett in Lakewood, Ohio, and 12 grandchildren. Local surviving relatives include a cousin, Mrs. H. Griffith Quirk; a nephew, Lawrence McKinney, and a niece, Mrs. Paul R. Foster. Arrangements are pending at the Hippensteele Funeral Home in Lafayette. Burial will be in Newtown Cemetery. --– jlr