Morris H. Wright, 90 years old, passed away in Tucson, Arizona on April 17, 2004. He was born on the family farm in Paradise on July 27, 1913 and grew up in Logan. Mr. Wright graduated from Utah State University in Accounting and went on to earn a Master of Business Administration with Distinction from the Harvard Business School. He is a life member of Sigma Chi Fraternity.

Mr. Wright lived in Cleveland, Ohio for fifteen years where he rose to Vice President and Director of the Weatherhead Company. He moved to New York in 1958 as a general partner of Kuhn Loeb and Company. Following the merger with Lehman Brothers, he became a Managing Director and, later, Advisory Director until his retirement in 1978. He is a past director of Air Products and Chemicals, N.L. Industries, Interlake, Inc., Acme Steel Company, International Pacific Security Company of Hong Kong, Harvey Aluminum Co. and Brush Wellman Corporation.

Mr. Wright is a past president of the Harvard Business School Club of Cleveland, Harvard Business School Club of New York, and the Harvard Business School Alumni Association.

After his retirement, he became a resident of East Hampton, NY. For the past 15 years Morris and his wife Loree have been winter visitors to Tucson, where Morris operated a small Arabian horse ranch.

He is survived by his wife, Loree McGee Wright, daughter, Polly (Fancher) Murray of Draper, Utah, son, John M. Wright (Laraine) of Belmont, Massachusetts, a half brother, Howard Close, of Ogden, Utah, nine grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. His son, David, passed away at the age of 15.

Funeral services will be held at Allen-Hall Mortuary at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 24th. The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to a favorite charity in his name.