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Submitted: 2/27/24 • Approved: 2/27/24 • Last Updated: 3/1/24 • R1521677-G1521677-S3
March 25, 1964 - September 21, 2022
Linda Susan Formby Wright of Prescott, Arkansas passed away
unexpectedly on Wednesday, September 21st at the age of 58.
She was born to William and Linda Formby in Prescott, Arkansas at the
Cora Donnel Hospital on March 25, 1964.
She was a well-respected educator who retired from the Texarkana
Independent School District after thirty years.
She and her husband, Dow, moved back to her childhood home in Prescott
in 2015. She worked for the Prescott Chamber of Commerce and the
Nevada County Library before returning to the classroom at Blevins
Independent School District in Blevins, Arkansas. She was beginning
her fifth year with the district when Jesus called her home to Heaven.
She attended Prescott Independent School District from kindergarten
all the way to twelfth grade where she loved every day of school,
classmate, and teacher. She was saved while attending church camp as a
child.
She continued her education at Henderson State University receiving
her BSE in 1986.
While teaching full time and raising her family, she attended East
Texas State University (now Texas A&M-Texarkana) where she received
her Master’s degree in Special Education. She took great pleasure in
bringing her students up to their potential. She was a gifted and
beautiful person full of love for all children, family, and friends.
Left to cherish her memory are her parents William and Linda Formby,
her mother-in-law Chirpy Wright, her loving husband of 35 years, Dow
Wright, her two sons and daughter-in-law: Brady and Allison Wright of
Texarkana, Mark Wright of Prescott: brother Phillip and Glenda Formby:
nephew Jonathan Formby: niece Beth Formby Bruce and Taylor: great
niece Emerie Grace Formby and a host of friends and family.
niece Beth Bruce and nephew Taylor Bruce.
She was a current member of Shady Grove Baptist Church. In lieu of
flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Shady Grove Baptist
Church.
Visitation will be held Sunday, September 25th at Brazzel Cornish
Funeral Home in Prescott, AR from 2-4 PM. Funeral services will be
held on Monday, September 26th at 2 PM with Brother Mike Puckett and
Brother Neal Ridling officiating with burial to follow at Deann
Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of BRAZZEL/Cornish
The Funeral of Home of Prescott, Eddie Brazzel Director.
Contributed on 2/27/24 by debbraszymanski
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