JOHNNY WRIGHT 1951 - 1982 PILOT FTW ACF GSW DAL DEN More Sad News: Today, Jan. 31st, 2000, Johnny Wright died of Lung Cancer, and services will be: Bluebonnett Hills Memorial Park (Service and Burial) Thurs. Feb. 3rd. 2:00 P.M. Grapevine Hwy. Ph. 817 281-3341 Colleyville, Texas -Bill Blackmon (1/31/00) Johnny Wright died 1/31 in FTW. Funeral 2 pm Thursday. He was 77 years old and retired from FL in 1982. -Wayne Holder (2/2/00) We hunted deer and elk, played golf and fished. I spent my first anniversary with Central with Johnny in AMA. I flew F/O and let Wilbanks stay home. When we got to AMA we went to a Quiet Birdmen's "wing ding" and met Frank Hand from the FAA at GSW there. -Clyde Hart (2/3/00) OBITUARY John Wilson James Wright, 77, a retired airline pilot, died Monday, Jan. 31, 2000, in Fort Worth. John was born on Sept. 16th, 1922 in Bandera, Texas. He was a former World War II Army pilot. He was a native Texan and a devout Christian. His passion in life was to fly. He started with the Army Air Corps in 1942 and achieved the rank of 1st. Lt. He continued to fly until 1982 when he retired as Captain for Frontier Airlines. Survivors: Wife of 56 years, Bette J. Wright of Colleyville and son Gregory Wright of Sacramento, Calif. Daughter Rebekah Mayer of Salt Lake City, Utah, Sister, Bobby and her husband, Clarence Simpson, of San Antonio: Eight Grand-Children: Two great-Grandchildren: Nephew, Ross Simpson of San Antonio: and Niece, Susan Simpson of San Antonio. -Fort Worth Star-Telegram (2/2/00) I have had good intentions of advising you that we lost another CN/FL ex. John (Johnny) Wright, former Capt who retired in 1984 died Jan. 31. Johnny was 77 years old & one of the really good guys. -Lawrence Weeks (3/5/00) Happened to look at a Calender today and noticed the date: 07-08-09 - (odd how the numbers fall) and realized that 50 years ago today, I entered the airline industry. Started work for Central Airlines in St. Louis Lambert Field as Passenger Service Agent. A PSA did everything, i.e., Sold tickets, ramp agent including freight/air express/mail pickup, bag pickup, cleaning A/C, dumping "honey bucket", drain fuel sumps, clean windshield, deice in winter, commissary-hot/cold water-gum-cigerettes-matches-instant coffee/hot choclate/lemonade and later sodas. Between flights we handled our own reservations before centralized to GSW. We had 2 DC-3 flights a day, Flt. 71 & 75 - STL-HRO-FYV-FSM-MLC-DAL-GSW. The first week or so, TWA substitued a B-707 on a Super Connie flight from LAX to STL. We had a 93 yr. old connecting passenger going to HRO - She was a very thrilled lady!!!! Ed Ciscowski was Station Mgr. & some of the agents were - Larry Thomas - Paul Stitle - Elton Hart - Joan Boston (her father was on CN board of directors). Can't remember any others. I was hired to replace Ed Dunaway who had transfered to HOT, I believe. I transferred to TBN when CN opened the airport there in '61. Ed Dunaway came to TBN at that time. Ed helped me tremendously while there and taught me a lot about manuals/tariffs/international tariffs etc. I went back to STL in '62, stayed thru merger with Frontier and received my first Station Mgr position in MEM in late 1970. Believe Capt. on first flight I worked was Johnny Wright - great person. He welcomed me to CN, (this lowly new hire PSA !!) I was impressed. I retired after 45 yrs and enjoyed the journey, & met/worked with the greatest people along the way !!!!! Wouldn't take anything for the memories. -Jim Mustain (7/8/09) J W WRIGHT Pilot seniority date of 5/7/51 on the 9/1/81 FL/ALPA seniority list. He is not on the 9/1/85 list. He is on the 2/82 Pilot Domicile List as # 16 on the seniority list holding a captain's slot on the Boeing 737. He would have been 60 years old on Sept 16, 1982 so I presume that is when he retired. -Jake Lamkins (5/22/10) JOHN W WRIGHT Born 16 Sep 1922 Died 31 Jan 2000 Age 77 At 76034 (Colleyville, Tarrant, TX) SSN issued in Texas -SSDI (5/25/10)