Wright

(submitted by Gladys Holbrook)

Rev. Mervyn Wright (1893–1973) was born in Kent County. He married Millie (Amelia) Cox (1893–1974) of Leamington in 1923. They had six children: Muriel (1924–), Gladys (1926–), Jean (1928–), George (1930–1952), William (1932–), and Joan (1936–). George was born with a disability and died of pneumonia.

Rev. Wright moved to Warwick in 1945 to become the minister of Warwick United Church. Then in 1948 the family moved to the Burns-Mooreline charge near Sarnia. Rev. Wright was Chairman of Lambton Presbytery and was a delegate to General Council in 1948 in Vancouver.

The Wright’s oldest daughter Muriel married Bob Beacom of Warwick in 1953. They moved to Vancouver, B.C. where they had six children: Bill, John, Joan, Paul, Barbara, and Sheila.

Rev. and Mrs. Wright’s next daughter Gladys married George Holbrook of Warwick Twp. in 1951. They had eight children: Anne (1952–), Lloyd (1954–), Norman (1956–), Carman (1958–), Jane (1960–), Helen (1961–), Lyle (1962–), and Gwen (1965–).

The next daughter Jean married Vince Welsh of Toronto in 1963 at Warwick and had two children: Steven and Valerie.

Bill married Elsie Hardy of Moore Twp. in 1954 and they had three children: Terry, Greg, and Jenny Lynn.

Rev. and Mrs. Wright’s youngest daughter Joan married Harold Pehlke of Perth County in 1958. They had five daughters: Patty, Sandra, Glenda, Wanda, and Pamela.

In 1961, Mervyn and Millie retired to a house on the northeast corner of the Egremont Rd. and Warwick Village Rd. in Warwick Village. They renovated the house, opening up a room upstairs, digging a larger basement by hand and adding on a dining room. Their remaining years were spent there.

Chapter 24 of 25 - Wright Family

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