THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, July 14, 1995 TAG: 9507140377
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B4 EDITION: FINAL
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LT CDR Robert Sims Wright, USN RET, 75, died July 12, 1995, in Portsmouth.
Mr. Wright was born in Kittery, Maine. He was a retired U.S. Navy lieutenant commander after 24 years, retiring in 1963. CDR Wright had served as an associate professor of gunnery and navigation for the NROTC program at Villanova University. During his naval career he was active in the training of naval gunfire. He supervised the transfer of post-World War II destroyers from the U.S. Navy to the German Navy. He wrote an atomic, biological and chemical defense manual while on the command staff of Amphibious Group II at Little Creek. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in June of 1943 with the Class of '44. Following his retirement from the Navy, CDR Wright taught high school in the Norfolk public school system, retiring in 1986. He was a member of St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church.
Survivors include his wife, Loretta G. Wright; two daughters, Mary Wright Mullin of Phoenix, Md., and Jane Wright Wolf of Weston, Conn.; two sons, Thomas John Wright of Jacksonville, N.C., and Robert Bruce Wright of Jacksonville, Fla.; a brother, Thomas John Wright of Evanston, Ill.; and six grandchildren.
A funeral Mass will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday at St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church, Virginia Beach. A funeral service will be held at 8:45 a.m. Monday, July 24, at Ft. Meyer Chapel at Arlington National Cemetery. Burial with full military honors will follow. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. today at Smith and Williams Funeral Home, Kempsville Chapel.
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