Charles Mark Wright

June 21, 1935 - November 11, 2020

Charles “Mark” Wright of Palm Desert, California passed away November 11, 2020. His wife Sylvia passed away June 29, 2013. Daughter Tammy (Mike) LaBellarte, and granddaughter Tayler (LaBellarte) of Palm Desert, CA survive. Mark was born June 21, 1935, in Floyd County Georgia, one of a family of 10 brothers and sisters. He was raised on the farm in Northern Floyd County, baptized in the creek near the Whatley farm, went to church at Bethel Baptist, and in his late teens, decided to follow his sister Edna to the bright lights and big city of Chicago, Illinois around 1953, looking for work. He found a job that he liked, so he stayed. He worked his entire career at Chicago Accurate Steel Corporation doing heat treating/steel hardening processes for automotive and industrial customers in the USA, as well as worldwide. He even heat treated gear sets for windmills in Holland. His brother Ranford says he was always a GMC truck man, (according to Mark, GMC is “the Cadillac” of pickup trucks after all). Mark loved to fish. He would often spend vacations fishing for freshwater game fish in Wisconsin. After he retired, (and “tired” of the cold, windy, snowy Chicago climate), he accepted the invitation to join his daughter’s family and move with them to warm and sunny Palm Desert, California. They got a house with an extra room (he called it a “mansion”), in a retirement community. He fished a lot there as well, spent time with his family, enjoying the sunny and dry weather; he even caught an albino catfish! Mark is enjoying a different kind of mansion today, a heavenly one with “many rooms”. Even though Mark has been away from Rome, GA for 67 years, he still has connections here. His brother Ranford (Sarah) lives in the Shannon area, and sister Edna Carter of Rome, also survive. Graveside services are scheduled for Saturday November 21, at 12:00 Noon, at Salmon Cemetery, Hwy 53N Shannon, GA with Dr. Billy Rayburn officiating. Sylvia Wright will be interned with Mark. Pallbearers Ranford Wright, Frank Wright, Robert Carter, Mark Moran, and David Boylan, are asked to report at 11:30. Parnick Jennings Good Shepherd Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.