Shaun Michael Bright, age 26, died on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at Elizabeth Hospital in Utica, NY. He was born September 19, 1979 in St. Louis, MO to Donald Wayne Bright of St. Louis and Sarah Mardell Bright Heard of Holloday, TN He was a grandson of the late Paul Richard and Cenia Calton Cawthon. Shaun was a native of St. Louis until 1991 when he moved to Wayne County. He attended Collinwood High School and earned his GED in 2004. He was a truck driver before moving to New York. He was a member of Collinwood Church of God.
Other than his parents he is survived by a sister, Shannon Marie Vaughn and her husband Patrick, nieces, Kaitlyn Nicole and Anna Marie Vaughn all of Iron City, TN stepmother, Sigrid Susan Bright of St. Louis, MO; stepfather, Richard Neil Heard of Holladay, TN; step brother, Richard Dwight Heard and his wife, Brandi Louise and step nephews, Devin and Alexander Heard all of Collinwood, TN several aunts, uncles, and cousins