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Delbert Lee Wright

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Delbert Lee Wright

Feb. 7, 1933-March 26, 2015

Visitation: 2-3 p.m. Sunday, March 28, Brumback Funeral Home, Stockton. Service: 11 a.m. Monday, March 30, funeral home. Burial: Lindley Prairie Cemetery with full military honors.

Delbert Lee Wright of Adrian, Missouri, was born to Robert Lee Wright and Millie Rebecca (Belcher) Wright Feb. 7, 1933, and departed this life March 26, 2015, in Adrian, Missouri.

He was born and raised in the Needmore area of Cedar County, Missouri, and accepted Christ into his life as a teenager at the Needmore Church. As a child, he would go hunting with his Grandpa Wright, creating a passion for the outdoors which continued until his departure from this earth.

He went to El Dorado rural schools through grade school, and graduated from Stockton High School in 1951. He worked in farming in the area after graduation until he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1953, where he served his country during the Korean War for two years. Upon completion of his military service, he returned to the Needmore area and resumed farm work for a short period of time before he started working at the aircraft manufacturers in Wichita, Kansas. During this time period, he met Judy Schaefer of Lockwood, Missouri, and they were married in Dade County, Missouri May 23, 1959. To this union two children were born, Angela Kay and Philip Lee.

In 1960, they moved to the Kansas City, Missouri, area where he worked at Honeywell (Bendix/Allied Signal) until retirement 32 years later. Delbert and Judy built their dream log home in Adrian, Missouri, where she currently resides. His retirement years were spent in the outdoors pheasant, quail and deer hunting. After having a heart attack, he was no longer able to go on his long pheasant hunting trips, and began raising pheasant and quail as a hobby until his health would no longer allow it. He also enjoyed expanding his model train hobby, and going to his grandchildren’s and great-grandchildren’s various activities where he always could be found on the sidelines, behind the fence, or in the bleachers video-taping their accomplishments.

Survivors include his wife, Judy of the home in Adrian, Missouri; a brother, Donald and wife Carolyn of Fair Play, Missouri; two children, Angie Fanning and husband Gary of Lamar, Missouri, and Phil Wright and wife Shannon of Shawnee, Kansas; four grandchildren, Amber Fidler and husband Jerry of Stockton, Missouri, Brian Simpson and wife Cortney of Stockton, Missouri, Jessi Thomas and husband Adam of Oronogo, Missouri, and Schaefer Lynn Wright of Shawnee, Kansas; four step-grandchildren, Matt Fanning of Springfield, Missouri, Kyla Marshall and husband Dale of Lithopolis, Ohio, Michael Fanning and wife Meghan of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Celynda Jeffreys and husband Tyler of Walnut Grove, Missouri; 10 great-grandchildren; six step-great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a granddaughter, Bowen Leigh Wright.

Online condolences can be made at www.brumbackfuneralhome.com.

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