Services for William Hershel Wright, age 79, of Wayne County Nursing Home, Waynesboro, TN will be Monday, April 7, 2008 at 1 pm at Piney Grove Freewill Baptist Church, Cypress Inn, TN with Emerald Bailey officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Shackelford Funeral Directors of Wayne County directing. Visitation will be Sunday, April 6, 2008 from 6 pm to 9 pm and Monday, April 7, 2008 from 9 am until 12:30 pm at Shackelford Funeral Home in Collinwood, TN.
He died at Maury Regional Hospital in Columbia, TN on Saturday, April 5, 2008.
A native of Wayne County, TN, he was a retired sawmill worker and was preceded in death by his parents, William Harmon and Leona Spires Wright and three grandchildren.
Survivors, sons, William Carl Wright, St. Joseph, TN; Michael Keith Wright and Randall Dewayne Wright both of Collinwood, TN; daughters, Frances Delena Skillern, Collinwood, TN; Kim Jenkins, St. Jospeh, TN; seventeen grandchildren; one great-grandchild