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.
Mr. Wright, 82, Adrian, died Thursday, March 26, 2015. He was born to Robert Lee and Millie Rebecca (Belcher) Wright in the Needmore area of Cedar County.
He accepted Christ into his life as a teenager at the Needmore Church. He attended El Dorado Springs rural school 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 working at the aircraft manufacturers in Wichita, Kansas.
He met and married Judy Schaefer, Lockwood, May 23, 1959, in Dade County, and two children, Angela Kay and Philip Lee, were born to the union.
In 1960, they moved to the Kansas City area where he worked at Honeywell (Bendix/Allied Signal) until retirement 32 years later. The couple built their dream log home in Adrian.
Survivors include his wife, Judy of the home; a brother, Donald and wife Carolyn of Fair Play; two children, Angie Fanning and husband Gary of Lamar and Phil Wright and wife Shannon of Shawnee, Kansas; four grandchildren, Amber Fidler and husband Jerry of Stockton, Brian Simpson and wife Cortney of Stockton, Jessi Thomas and husband Adam of Oronogo and Schaefer Lynn Wright of Shawnee, Kansas; four step-grandchildren, Matt Fanning of Springfield, 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; 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.
