Steven Neal Wright

Steven Neal Wright

Steven Neal Wright, 52, of Winona, completed his earthly journey on Tuesday, November 21, 2022, in Tyler. Services will be held on Monday, November 28, 2022, in the Chapel of Rader Funeral Home in Kilgore, at 2 p.m. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 1 until 2 prior to the service.

Steven Neal Wright was born on October 5,1970, in Longview, Texas, to Martha and Jimmy Wright. He was welcomed home by big sister Lisa (Sissy Gal). Steve graduated from Sabine High School in the class of 1989 where he participated in athletics and FFA. He married Jill Hodges in 1993, and they had three daughters. Steve worked in the oil field as a truck and heavy equipment owner/operator. He was a talented artist and a world class story teller with a perfect memory for trivia. Steve enjoyed working in the shop along side his daddy on his trucks and trailers and relishing in the visits of friends who dropped by. Helping his parents with chores around their house was something Steve took pleasure in and he looked forward to the family lunches they often shared. From early childhood, he was an outdoorsman who enjoyed the land and animals. Steve never met a stranger and counted hundreds of people as his friends, but his family was who he cherished most. Steve was baptized at Forest Home Baptist Church but later attended Pursuit Church.

Steve was preceded in death by his grandparents, Bud and Hazel Bowerman and Howard and Ida Wright; father- in-law Bob Hodges; uncles, Buddy Bowerman and James Wright; aunts Maxine Fambrough, Sandra Carroll and Glenda Moeller; and cousins David Fambrough and Tony Wright.

He is survived by his loving wife Jill, and his daughters Ali (Dawson) Nash and grandson Ezra Nash, Ashlyn Wright, and Amber Wright, his parents, and his sisters, Lisa (Raymond) Allen and Laci (Matt) Rowan. He is also survived by his “little Mom”, Wanda Hodges, his brother- in-law, Brent Hodges (Amanda) and sister-in-law Jamie Quinlan (Larry). Other survivors are Aunt Geri Wright, nephews Andrew Stuckey, Dusty Allen, Aldyn Rowan, Connor Quinlan, Roman Quinlan, and Sam Hodges and nieces Tara Sanders, Ashley Stephenson, Brooke Tubbs, Raegan Babb, Sydney Stuckey, Riley Hodges, and Sydney Hodges, cousins Mike Wright, Steve Daniels, Jamie Ware, Jason Ware, Valerie Fambrough, Dana McMullen, Janine Bray, Deanne Dean, Donna Dean and Leslie Galloway, and several great nephews and one great niece.