Wright Family History

With love we remember

Kathleen Rhoda Rhodes

(nee Wright)

1922 - 2004

A Moment of Reflection

Kathleen was the only surviving daughter of Henry & Frances Esther Wright of Kingshill, Wednesbury. She had three older and one younger brother.

Mom attended St Andrews Church School and also Kingshill Girls School, Wednesbury. As a young teenager she continued the musical family trend when she played the Cornet in the Double Six Jazz Band at Joynson Street, Kingshill. Her Father Henry and two brothers were accomplished brass band musicians with Rubery Owens Work Band.

Mom's working life between 1939 and 1943 was spent in munitions factories such as the Quasi Ark (The shadow factory). In 1941 she met Dad whilst he was on leave from the South Staffordshire Regiment. After a courtship of less than a year they married on 21st November 1942 at St Bartholomews Church in Wednesbury.

Mom and Dad brought three sons and three daughters into the world between 1944 and 1962.

Mom had suffered ill health for many years which gradually became more demanding of her amazing strength. After almost 62 years of marriage, 6 children, 10 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren, sadly she departed this life on 30th March 2004, just 5 days after her 82nd birthday.

Mom will always be remembered with great love by all of her family. She was the most loving and hardworking wife and Mother, a true lady whose generosity, caring and playful sense of humour will always remain in our hearts and minds.

All is well

Death is nothing at all

I have only slipped into the next room

I am I and you are you

Whatever we were to each other, that we are still

Call me by my familiar name

Speak to me in the way you always used

Put no difference in your love

Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow

Laugh as we always laughed at little jokes we enjoyed together

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me

Let my name be ever the household word that it always has

Let it be spoken without effect,without the trace of shadow on it

Life means all it ever meant

It is the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am just waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near

All is well

Henry Scott Holland

1847 - 1918

Canon of St Pauls Cathedral

 

Words chosen for Mom by daughter Kathy

 

 

I Need to say Goodbye

I need to say goodbye although you're with me.

I stand beside your grave, yet you are here.

I miss you terribly and hope you miss me,

But when I turn to you, you're always near.

I talk to you as though you lived within me,

Not changed but simply moved in from outside.

I know each day you must a little leave me,

But here, as always, you must be my guide.

You were and are and will be, just as ever,

In many minds and hearts, not only mine.

No physical event can such love sever;

Death is a dimension, not a line.

And so goodbye does not mean you are gone:

So long as I still love you, you live on.

 

Nicholas Gordon

 

Words chosen for Mom by daughter Lyn

 

 

May the road rise up to meet you,

May the wind be always at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face,

And the rains fall soft upon your fields.

And, until we meet again,

May God hold you in the palm of His hand

 

May the Lord

Bless you and keep you

And make his countenance

to shine upon you,

And forever give you peace

 

 

For over 200 years Moms lineage has been firmly established in the Black Country, mainly in Wednesbury and Darlaston. She was a true Black Country girl, proud of her roots as we her family are proud and honoured that she was our Mom.

Name

Relationship

Dates

Location

Henry Wright

Father

1894 - 1958

Wednesbury

Frances Esther Bayley

Mother

1894 - 1948

Wednesbury

William Wright

Paternal Grandfather

1858 - ????

Wednesbury

Rhoda Taylor

Paternal Grandmother

1862 - ????

Wednesbury

Thomas Wright

Paternal Great Grandfather

1834 - ????

Darlaston

Elizabeth Lander

Paternal Great Grandmother

1836 - ????

Darlaston

Moses Wright

Paternal Great Great Grandfather

1806 - ????

Darlaston

Selina Augusta Wilkes

Paternal Great Great Grandmother

1807 - ????

Darlaston

Joseph Bayley

Maternal Grandfather

1872 - ????

Darlaston

Eliza Turner

Maternal Grandmother

1872 - ????

Wolverhampton

Thomas Bayley

Maternal Great Grandfather

1848 - ????

Darlaston

Frances Blakemore

Maternal Great Grandmother

1847 - ????

Darlaston

John Bayley

Maternal Great Great Grandfather

1822 - ????

Darlaston

Joseph Bayley

Maternal Great Great Great Grandfather

1800 - ????

Darlaston

Catherine

Maternal Great Great Great Grandmother

1802 - ????

Darlaston

 

 

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Updated

19th June 2004

 

 

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