Lila Marjorie Walker Wright

She is preceded in death by her parents Leffler B. Walker and Annie Alene (Loggins) Walker, an infant son Bobby Joe Wright, and her husband of 46 years R.B. Wright.

Lila is survived by four children Joel Lankford Wright (Virgie), Lida Alene Miller (Dave), Joyce Ann (Penny) Irwin (Sam), and Mary Priscilla Wright.

Two sisters: Edith Mayrue Harper (Nashville, TN) and Lessie Leegan (Waverly, TN), one sister-in-law Juanita Walker (Nashville, TN) and a host of nieces and nephews.

Nine grandchildren: Carl Wright (Tina) , Traci Allison (Steve), Michel Johnsen (Mark), Karen Pearl (Richard), Beth Irwin, Joey Corlew (Amanda), Michael Miller, Jeremy Wright (Angie), David Miller (LeighAnne)

10 great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild to whom she was known as Grandmother, Gran, Mamble, G-maw, and Great-grandmother.

Lila married R.B. Wright in 1942. They moved to Nashville in 1947 and R.B. took a job at Vanderbilt University. Lila was a graduate from Watkins Business College in 1949.

Lila was a homemaker until 1966 when she took a part time job as a patrol mother for her friend, the late Mayor Beverly Briley. She later worked at the Upper Room (GBOD) and retired in 1988.

Through the years, Lila and R.B. invited, at various times, 23 nieces and nephews to live with them while they were furthering their educations in Nashville.

They also shared their home on weekends and holidays with children from Tennessee Preparatory School and Potters Orphanage.

Lila’s love of children and love for sewing made her very instrumental in the sewing ministry at West End Church of Christ where she was a long time member. She made countless numbers of blankets for the NICU at Vanderbilt’s Children‘s Hospital, but took special pride in making burial gowns with hand sewn lace.

Special thanks to her longtime friends Dorothy Kain, Nancy Gardner, Ruby Nash, Nancy Edwards, countless others and to the staff at Caris in Murfreesboro.

Visitation will be held from four until eight o’clock in the evening on Friday, the 26th of September 2014 at Woodlawn Roesch-Patton Funeral Home.

Services will be held at one o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday, the 27th of September in Woodlawn’s Dignity Hall with visitation held one hour prior to the service. Doug Stewart will be officiating.

Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.