George Walter Wright, Jr., 82, lifelong Abilene area resident, died Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at the Memorial Hospital in Abilene, Kansas.

He was born on June 12, 1943 in Greenwood County, Kansas, the son of George Walter and Bessie Evenson Wright, Sr.

George was raised and attended a country school East of Eureka. In 1951 the family moved to Detroit, Kansas and George graduated from Dickinson County High School in Chapman in 1961.

After high school George moved to Manhattan where he worked at a lumber yard and as a ranch hand. George married Mayme White in September 1963 in Alta Vista, Kansas. They moved to Hatfield, Missouri where he was a Foreman on the Ironwood Ranch.

Between 1970 and 1982 he drove a truck hauling grain and livestock. In the early 1980’s George and his family m

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