Wrights & Maxeys of Monroe County, Mississippi - Person Sheet
Wrights & Maxeys of Monroe County, Mississippi - Person Sheet
NameTURNER, Jo Aubrey 
Birth Date3 Apr 1928
Birth PlaceArkansas
Death Date7 Nov 2018 Age: 90
Death PlaceMemphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
Misc. Notes
Jo Aubrey Turner Wright died November 7, 2018 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
She was born on April 3, 1928 in Hardy, Arkansas to Sterling Aubrey and Mabel Walker Turner. She grew up in Shelby County, Tennessee, and graduated from White Station Grammar School and from Mabel C. Williams High School in Germantown.
She received Bachelor’s Degrees from Memphis State College (now the University of Memphis) and the University Of Tennessee School Of Biological Sciences in Memphis. She worked as a nuclear medical technologist at the medical center there for 15 years.
While living in Memphis, she was a member of Mullins United Methodist Church, Alpha Delta Pi Alumni Association, American Association of University Women, King’s Daughters, and Medical Technology Societies. She sang in choirs at Mullins and at Second Presbyterian Church.
On June 20, 1965, she married William Howard Wright. They lived in Verona, Mississippi, had two children, and attended Verona United Methodist Church. After her husband retired from TVA, she helped him with his businesses of selling bird dogs, building dog trailers and garbage containers, and, later, home construction and inspection.
While her children were attending Church Street School in Tupelo, she was a room mother as well as a Brownie and Cub Scout Leader. She was a member of the Fortnightly Musicale and the Hospital Auxiliary.
In 1977, the family moved to Tupelo, Mississippi, and joined First United Methodist Church there. Jo was a member of the United Methodist Women, Daughters of the American Revolution, Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century, the Northeast Mississippi Historical and Genealogical Society, the Friends of the Lee County Library, and the TVA Retirees Association. She was an amateur genealogist.
She is predeceased by her parents, her husband of 32 years, her brother Haiden G. Turner, and her sisters, Ann Turner, Margaret Turner Rutledge, and Katherine Turner Yarbrough.
She is survived by her daughter Amy Wright Hunt (Greg), son William Sterling Wright (Christine), granddaughters Meghan and Kaitlyn Hunt, step-daughter Juanita Wright Lafko, nephews Haiden W. Turner and Al Rutledge, nieces Kathy Rutledge Crump-Wiesner, Ann Rutledge Ackman, Marty Rutledge, Garland Yarbrough Minton, Paula Yarbrough Noble, Carolyn Yarbrough Neergaard, Lean Yarbrough Follett, Rhonda Wright, and Jada Wright Gaynor, sisters-in-law Juliet P. Turner and Doris B. Wright, and special friends Carolyn Boggan and Judy Roebuck.
She was born on April 3, 1928 in Hardy, Arkansas to Sterling Aubrey and Mabel Walker Turner. She grew up in Shelby County, Tennessee, and graduated from White Station Grammar School and from Mabel C. Williams High School in Germantown.
She received Bachelor’s Degrees from Memphis State College (now the University of Memphis) and the University Of Tennessee School Of Biological Sciences in Memphis. She worked as a nuclear medical technologist at the medical center there for 15 years.
While living in Memphis, she was a member of Mullins United Methodist Church, Alpha Delta Pi Alumni Association, American Association of University Women, King’s Daughters, and Medical Technology Societies. She sang in choirs at Mullins and at Second Presbyterian Church.
On June 20, 1965, she married William Howard Wright. They lived in Verona, Mississippi, had two children, and attended Verona United Methodist Church. After her husband retired from TVA, she helped him with his businesses of selling bird dogs, building dog trailers and garbage containers, and, later, home construction and inspection.
While her children were attending Church Street School in Tupelo, she was a room mother as well as a Brownie and Cub Scout Leader. She was a member of the Fortnightly Musicale and the Hospital Auxiliary.
In 1977, the family moved to Tupelo, Mississippi, and joined First United Methodist Church there. Jo was a member of the United Methodist Women, Daughters of the American Revolution, Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century, the Northeast Mississippi Historical and Genealogical Society, the Friends of the Lee County Library, and the TVA Retirees Association. She was an amateur genealogist.
She is predeceased by her parents, her husband of 32 years, her brother Haiden G. Turner, and her sisters, Ann Turner, Margaret Turner Rutledge, and Katherine Turner Yarbrough.
She is survived by her daughter Amy Wright Hunt (Greg), son William Sterling Wright (Christine), granddaughters Meghan and Kaitlyn Hunt, step-daughter Juanita Wright Lafko, nephews Haiden W. Turner and Al Rutledge, nieces Kathy Rutledge Crump-Wiesner, Ann Rutledge Ackman, Marty Rutledge, Garland Yarbrough Minton, Paula Yarbrough Noble, Carolyn Yarbrough Neergaard, Lean Yarbrough Follett, Rhonda Wright, and Jada Wright Gaynor, sisters-in-law Juliet P. Turner and Doris B. Wright, and special friends Carolyn Boggan and Judy Roebuck.
Spouses
1WRIGHT, William Howard Jr. , 3C3R
, 3C3RBirth Date16 Sep 1914
Birth PlaceShannon, Lee County, Mississippi
Death Date11 Dec 1997 Age: 83
Death PlaceTupelo, Lee County, Mississippi
FatherWRIGHT, William Howard Sr. (1884-1916)
MotherCOGGIN, Laura Ethel (1891-1973)
Marr Date20 Jun 1965
Marr PlaceMemphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
ChildrenWilliam Sterling