Mrs. Ella May Hunt-Wright

HUNT-WRIGHT, Mrs. Ella May- Age 81, passed away Sunday, December 15, 2013 at McLaren Hospital-Flint. Family hour 11:30 a.m. Friday, December 20, 2013 at Christ Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, 317 E. Hamilton Ave., with funeral service commencing at 12 p.m. Rev. Dr. Mark Anthony Jones, Sr., officiating. Interment Meadowview Memorial Gardens Cemetery, 3136 N. State Rd., Davison. Friends and pallbearers will assemble at the Church 11:30 a.m. Friday. Mrs. Wright will lie in state in the Chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home, 906 W. Flint Park Blvd. and may be viewed from 1 p.m.-8 p.m. Thursday. Mrs. Ella May Hunt Wright was born September 8, 1932 in Wisner, Louisiana, the daughter of Sylvester and Mollie Stuart Hunt. Ella graduated from high School in Jonesville, L.A. Mother Wright received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Social Science and English from Grambling State University, graduating Cum Laude and Honors in Social Science. She taught school in the Catahoula Parish School System before moving to Flint. Mother Wright was a member of Christ Fellowship Baptist Church. She sang with the Voices of Christ Fellowship, served in the Mother’s Ministry, served as Director of Christian Education and was a former Sunday School teacher and usher. She was also a member of the Ophelia Bonner Scholarship Fund Committee. Mother Wright was a Parent Volunteer with the Flint School District for many years. She was also a charter member of the Milton Mayes Title 1 Parent Scholarship Fund of the Flint School District. She was a Life Member of the National Coalition of Title 1 Chapter 1 Parents, and a member of Flint NIPP Board of Directors. Mrs. Wright leaves to cherish in her memory: daughter, Monica L. Wright; 5 grandchildren, Que’Ondreas, Sha’Quayla, Sha’Quaytia Wright, Tanea and Shante’ Bell; 5 great-grandchildren, Duane Bailey III, La’Naea, Tywyonn, Wonnthai, and Renyada; 2 great-great-grandchildren, Kace and Jaila; sister, Shirley (Retor) Jones of Jonesville, LA; a host of nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, great-great-nieces and great-great-nephews. Mrs. Wright was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Wright; daughter, Ericka Wright; parents, Sylvester and Molly Stuart Hunt; 2 brothers, S.F.C. Henry Hunt and Ernest Hunt; sister-in-law, Myrtle Hunt.

Mrs. Ella May Hunt-Wright

September 8, 1932 - December 15, 2013