From the Post Register Newspaper, 16 Nov 1971
A MAN TO LEAN ON
Worth D. Wright was a rock, the kind that would assay exactly the same at any given time during his life. And that assay was a high density of immovable, imperturbable, totally consistent integrity. It was an integrity that gave each man his just due, both in the world of finance in which he operated with invincible detachment, as well as with the people he dealt with throughout his life as church leader, civic enterpriser, industry builder, and financier. Figures and finance were no more than faces of people to him.
But this man who developed the first savings and loan association in Idaho Falls could not only read people, a requisite of the banker, he brought a serene buoyancy to all of his work. He was a happy man, not jubilant but happy, because he was a man of restraint, who valued highly his own predictability as well as those around him. People came to his office not only to discuss their money problems, but their other personal problems, because here was a rock of assurance, trust, and abidingly good judgment.
And as both a local and a national leader of the Baptist Church, it was important to him that his evaluation of whatever he did and said reflected his deep faith in the moral values that were intrinsic to his nature. Individual responsibility, both as churchman and as savings and loan manager, mixed comfortably. These traditional values of hard work, personal reliability, and reasonable ambition were his goals and conveyed all the attainment he desired. He lived modestly and in strict moderation, a completely self-composed man. It is difficult for his friends to remember him in anger.
He was the kind of man who could smile at himself, and would beam when a land developer, knowing he was anything but, would chidingly call him "the reckless wizard of finance." A man who never drank or smoked, he, nevertheless, had an understanding of the frailties of man.
Worth Wright, who died last week in retirement at Lacey, Washington, is the kind of man to whom a whole community of people counted a special community asset--a man they will miss leaning on. (end of article)
Just a sampling of his activities and organizations:
Organizing executive of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Idaho Falls and held the reins of both state and national savings and loan leagues.
President of the Idaho Falls Community Chest.
President of Idaho Falls Kiwanis Club.
Board member and eventually president of the Sacred Heart Hospital Advisory Board in Idaho Falls.
Chairman of the Salvation Army board.
A long-time member of the Teton Peaks Boy Scout Council.
President of the Idaho Falls YMCA.
Chairman of the wartime Bonneville County Ration Board.
Was honored with lifetime membership in the Chamber of Commerce for his distinguished career of community service.
Member of the board of trustees of Linfield College in Oregon and of the Baptist Divinity School in Berkeley, Calif.
A prominent Baptist church leader. He fulfilled committee assignments for the American Baptist Convention, as an officer of the Baptist Young People's Union of Idaho, and as president of the Idaho Baptist Convention.
He served for six years as an Idaho Falls city councilman.
Worth married Mary Lou Andrews 30 May 1925 and they had one child--a daughter--Betty Louise (Betty Lou), born in 1926. Betty Lou married Norval Lee "Pete" Pielstick in 1948. She died in a car accident in 1951, just 3 months before their 3rd wedding anniversary. Worth and Mary Lou were left with no grandchildren. Their nieces and nephews and their families honor their memories and achievements.
(Thanks to Keith L Dayley for biography information.)
A MAN TO LEAN ON
Worth D. Wright was a rock, the kind that would assay exactly the same at any given time during his life. And that assay was a high density of immovable, imperturbable, totally consistent integrity. It was an integrity that gave each man his just due, both in the world of finance in which he operated with invincible detachment, as well as with the people he dealt with throughout his life as church leader, civic enterpriser, industry builder, and financier. Figures and finance were no more than faces of people to him.
But this man who developed the first savings and loan association in Idaho Falls could not only read people, a requisite of the banker, he brought a serene buoyancy to all of his work. He was a happy man, not jubilant but happy, because he was a man of restraint, who valued highly his own predictability as well as those around him. People came to his office not only to discuss their money problems, but their other personal problems, because here was a rock of assurance, trust, and abidingly good judgment.
And as both a local and a national leader of the Baptist Church, it was important to him that his evaluation of whatever he did and said reflected his deep faith in the moral values that were intrinsic to his nature. Individual responsibility, both as churchman and as savings and loan manager, mixed comfortably. These traditional values of hard work, personal reliability, and reasonable ambition were his goals and conveyed all the attainment he desired. He lived modestly and in strict moderation, a completely self-composed man. It is difficult for his friends to remember him in anger.
He was the kind of man who could smile at himself, and would beam when a land developer, knowing he was anything but, would chidingly call him "the reckless wizard of finance." A man who never drank or smoked, he, nevertheless, had an understanding of the frailties of man.
Worth Wright, who died last week in retirement at Lacey, Washington, is the kind of man to whom a whole community of people counted a special community asset--a man they will miss leaning on. (end of article)
Just a sampling of his activities and organizations:
Organizing executive of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Idaho Falls and held the reins of both state and national savings and loan leagues.
President of the Idaho Falls Community Chest.
President of Idaho Falls Kiwanis Club.
Board member and eventually president of the Sacred Heart Hospital Advisory Board in Idaho Falls.
Chairman of the Salvation Army board.
A long-time member of the Teton Peaks Boy Scout Council.
President of the Idaho Falls YMCA.
Chairman of the wartime Bonneville County Ration Board.
Was honored with lifetime membership in the Chamber of Commerce for his distinguished career of community service.
Member of the board of trustees of Linfield College in Oregon and of the Baptist Divinity School in Berkeley, Calif.
A prominent Baptist church leader. He fulfilled committee assignments for the American Baptist Convention, as an officer of the Baptist Young People's Union of Idaho, and as president of the Idaho Baptist Convention.
He served for six years as an Idaho Falls city councilman.
Worth married Mary Lou Andrews 30 May 1925 and they had one child--a daughter--Betty Louise (Betty Lou), born in 1926. Betty Lou married Norval Lee "Pete" Pielstick in 1948. She died in a car accident in 1951, just 3 months before their 3rd wedding anniversary. Worth and Mary Lou were left with no grandchildren. Their nieces and nephews and their families honor their memories and achievements.
(Thanks to Keith L Dayley for biography information.)
From the Post Register Newspaper, 16 Nov 1971
A MAN TO LEAN ON
Worth D. Wright was a rock, the kind that would assay exactly the same at any given time during his life. And that assay was a high density of immovable, imperturbable, totally consistent integrity. It was an integrity that gave each man his just due, both in the world of finance in which he operated with invincible detachment, as well as with the people he dealt with throughout his life as church leader, civic enterpriser, industry builder, and financier. Figures and finance were no more than faces of people to him.
But this man who developed the first savings and loan association in Idaho Falls could not only read people, a requisite of the banker, he brought a serene buoyancy to all of his work. He was a happy man, not jubilant but happy, because he was a man of restraint, who valued highly his own predictability as well as those around him. People came to his office not only to discuss their money problems, but their other personal problems, because here was a rock of assurance, trust, and abidingly good judgment.
And as both a local and a national leader of the Baptist Church, it was important to him that his evaluation of whatever he did and said reflected his deep faith in the moral values that were intrinsic to his nature. Individual responsibility, both as churchman and as savings and loan manager, mixed comfortably. These traditional values of hard work, personal reliability, and reasonable ambition were his goals and conveyed all the attainment he desired. He lived modestly and in strict moderation, a completely self-composed man. It is difficult for his friends to remember him in anger.
He was the kind of man who could smile at himself, and would beam when a land developer, knowing he was anything but, would chidingly call him "the reckless wizard of finance." A man who never drank or smoked, he, nevertheless, had an understanding of the frailties of man.
Worth Wright, who died last week in retirement at Lacey, Washington, is the kind of man to whom a whole community of people counted a special community asset--a man they will miss leaning on. (end of article)
Just a sampling of his activities and organizations:
Organizing executive of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Idaho Falls and held the reins of both state and national savings and loan leagues.
President of the Idaho Falls Community Chest.
President of Idaho Falls Kiwanis Club.
Board member and eventually president of the Sacred Heart Hospital Advisory Board in Idaho Falls.
Chairman of the Salvation Army board.
A long-time member of the Teton Peaks Boy Scout Council.
President of the Idaho Falls YMCA.
Chairman of the wartime Bonneville County Ration Board.
Was honored with lifetime membership in the Chamber of Commerce for his distinguished career of community service.
Member of the board of trustees of Linfield College in Oregon and of the Baptist Divinity School in Berkeley, Calif.
A prominent Baptist church leader. He fulfilled committee assignments for the American Baptist Convention, as an officer of the Baptist Young People's Union of Idaho, and as president of the Idaho Baptist Convention.
He served for six years as an Idaho Falls city councilman.
Worth married Mary Lou Andrews 30 May 1925 and they had one child--a daughter--Betty Louise (Betty Lou), born in 1926. Betty Lou married Norval Lee "Pete" Pielstick in 1948. She died in a car accident in 1951, just 3 months before their 3rd wedding anniversary. Worth and Mary Lou were left with no grandchildren. Their nieces and nephews and their families honor their memories and achievements.
(Thanks to Keith L Dayley for biography information.)
A MAN TO LEAN ON
Worth D. Wright was a rock, the kind that would assay exactly the same at any given time during his life. And that assay was a high density of immovable, imperturbable, totally consistent integrity. It was an integrity that gave each man his just due, both in the world of finance in which he operated with invincible detachment, as well as with the people he dealt with throughout his life as church leader, civic enterpriser, industry builder, and financier. Figures and finance were no more than faces of people to him.
But this man who developed the first savings and loan association in Idaho Falls could not only read people, a requisite of the banker, he brought a serene buoyancy to all of his work. He was a happy man, not jubilant but happy, because he was a man of restraint, who valued highly his own predictability as well as those around him. People came to his office not only to discuss their money problems, but their other personal problems, because here was a rock of assurance, trust, and abidingly good judgment.
And as both a local and a national leader of the Baptist Church, it was important to him that his evaluation of whatever he did and said reflected his deep faith in the moral values that were intrinsic to his nature. Individual responsibility, both as churchman and as savings and loan manager, mixed comfortably. These traditional values of hard work, personal reliability, and reasonable ambition were his goals and conveyed all the attainment he desired. He lived modestly and in strict moderation, a completely self-composed man. It is difficult for his friends to remember him in anger.
He was the kind of man who could smile at himself, and would beam when a land developer, knowing he was anything but, would chidingly call him "the reckless wizard of finance." A man who never drank or smoked, he, nevertheless, had an understanding of the frailties of man.
Worth Wright, who died last week in retirement at Lacey, Washington, is the kind of man to whom a whole community of people counted a special community asset--a man they will miss leaning on. (end of article)
Just a sampling of his activities and organizations:
Organizing executive of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Idaho Falls and held the reins of both state and national savings and loan leagues.
President of the Idaho Falls Community Chest.
President of Idaho Falls Kiwanis Club.
Board member and eventually president of the Sacred Heart Hospital Advisory Board in Idaho Falls.
Chairman of the Salvation Army board.
A long-time member of the Teton Peaks Boy Scout Council.
President of the Idaho Falls YMCA.
Chairman of the wartime Bonneville County Ration Board.
Was honored with lifetime membership in the Chamber of Commerce for his distinguished career of community service.
Member of the board of trustees of Linfield College in Oregon and of the Baptist Divinity School in Berkeley, Calif.
A prominent Baptist church leader. He fulfilled committee assignments for the American Baptist Convention, as an officer of the Baptist Young People's Union of Idaho, and as president of the Idaho Baptist Convention.
He served for six years as an Idaho Falls city councilman.
Worth married Mary Lou Andrews 30 May 1925 and they had one child--a daughter--Betty Louise (Betty Lou), born in 1926. Betty Lou married Norval Lee "Pete" Pielstick in 1948. She died in a car accident in 1951, just 3 months before their 3rd wedding anniversary. Worth and Mary Lou were left with no grandchildren. Their nieces and nephews and their families honor their memories and achievements.
(Thanks to Keith L Dayley for biography information.)
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