My good friend Stu Wright, Wright's Gunsmiths and Wright's Chokes, passed away this morning. He fought a courageous battle and held strong to the end.
Stu was a fixture on the trap shooting circuit for many decades and each year at the Grand American Trapshooting Championship. He was a gunsmith to many of the great trap shooters of the last 30 years.
He showed all of us who knew him how a man should handle what life sometimes hands out to us. He was loyal to his friends regardless of the cost and never failed to defend those who needed it.
He spent countless hours and much of his own money to start a shooting team in the small town of Pinckneyville, Illinois. He furnished guns and ammo to kids who otherwise would not have had them or the opportunity to shoot. From very small beginnings the teams that he coached won national scholastic clays titles. http://allaboutshooting.com/article_info.php?articles_id=781
He was a good man, husband, father, grandfather and no better friend could be found.
He died way too soon and he will be sorely missed.
Please keep his family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.
Thank you,
Clark
Thoughts and prayers to all.
Clark,
You honor your friend with your words and make me wish that our paths had crossed. God's peace and comfort to his family, his friends and you.
Paul Hilbrant
Prayers sent Clark!
God bless
Sounds like a fine man, prayers sent for his family.
Very sorry for the loss of your friend. Prayers go out to you & your friend's family. May God bless you all during this sad time.
Sorry for your loss. God Bless
Thank you all for your kind words, thoughts and prayers.
Stu's memorial service will be on January 2nd and even in his death he was thinking of the shooting sports. It was his request that no flowers be sent and that donations instead be made to the Pinckneyville Shooting Sports fund. He died the way he lived, with his thoughts on the kids who benefited from the shooting sports.
Thanks,
Clark
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/obituaries/stuart-wright/article_d4164a91-02f4-5ed9-b9de-edd938f38e56.html#utm_source=thesouthern.com&utm_campaign=%2Femail-updates%2Fobits%2F&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline
Sorry for the loss of your friend. Prayers for you, him and his family.