Three Wrights Don't Make a Wrong

92-year-old Wilson Wright is actually Wilson Wright III. He does not know much about the genealogy of his name . . . only that he is the grandson of Wilson Wright, the son of Wilson Wright, Jr. and father to Wilson Wright IV. "When I was young I didn’t like it when people would call our home asking for Wilson and my father or mother would respond, ‘do you want Little Wilson or Big Wilson,’ so when my own son was born I named him Wilson Wright IV but called him by his middle name of George." A graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy in the class of 1939, Elder Wright spent a year on the battleship U. S. S. Idaho followed by a year on the destroyer U. S. S. Lamson, then became a Navy fighter pilot during World War II. His last military assignment was as an Operations Officer on the U. S. S. Wright (no joke!) where he was replaced by another Commander Wright. Of that transition, newspaper headlines announced, "Commander Wright replaces Commander Wright on the U. S. S. Wright (named for the famous fly boys of Kittyhawk)!" The senior Wilson Wright has been a Bloomington resident since 1987.

Wilson Wright IV (known to his family and friends as George) hasn’t met very many people outside of the family with his moniker, and recognizes he is the last of his family’s long line of Wilson Wrights. After two tours of duty in Southeast Asia in the U. S. Army (during the Vietnam era), he graduated from Orange Coast College with a degree in marine science. George was then employed by the University of Southern California Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies as a senior oceanographic technician. He later worked in the aerospace industry for Aerojet and Boeing before his recent retirement and move to Bloomington where he resides with Wilson III.

10-year-old Wilson Wright is the 3rd of David and Gentry Wilson Wright’s five children. "The doctor thought my baby was a boy, so we started calling ‘him’ Wilson early on. When the baby turned out to be a 'she' instead of a 'he,' it was already her name!" laughs Sister Wright. Born in Montana, the blond Wilson Wright loves to read and can go through 5-6 books in a week. She also enjoys playing soccer, loves the outdoors, doesn’t mind getting dirty and always likes to be where the fun and the party is!