Cheryl L. Wright

1947 - 2024

It is with deep sadness and a heavy heart, we announce the passing of Cheryl L. Wright on December 28, 2024 in Brentwood, Tennessee. Cheryl was born on September 16,1947, in Pasadena, CA to Mr. & Mrs. Morris McWhorter. She spent the first years of her life in the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles, CA, relocating to Phoenix, AZ in 1959 with her mother and sister.
She attended both junior high and high school in Phoenix, having graduated from Alhambra High School in 1965. After a year and a half as a student at Phoenix College, she relocated to Orange County, CA, whereupon she began a 13-year career in the real estate development business with Pacesetter Homes of Newport Beach. With a heavy emphasis on interior design, marketing and merchandising, she trained in all aspects of the industry, eventually becoming the Executive Assistant to the CEO of this publicly held company.
On April 21, 1979, she wed Darrel W. Wright, a Newport Beach-based home builder and shopping center developer. For the next eight years the Wrights resided in the Corona Del Mar neighborhood of Newport Beach, where they were members of Big Canyon Country Club and St. Mark Presbyterian Church. Cheryl took up the game of golf, and became quite good very quickly, having had her first hole in one within the first year of playing the game.
In December of 1984 Cheryl became a full-time mom and homemaker with the birth of Gregory A. Wright. In 1987 the Wright family completed construction of a new home in the Hope Ranch community of Santa Barbara, CA, moving to the coastal community that same year. Shortly after the move to Santa Barbara Cheryl became involved in CALM, a child abuse charity, and subsequently became an officer in the organization. At this time the Wrights also became members of both La Cumbre Country Club and the Los Angeles Country Club. In 1996 Cheryl began a three-year stint on the Board of Directors of La Cumbre Country Club.
In 2006, the Wrights, eyeing semi-retirement, purchased a home in The Tradition C.C. in La Quinta, CA, and subsequently built a summer home in Cour d'Alene, ID. Cheryl and her husband have had the good fortune to have traveled and played golf all over the United States and the world, having visited some 20 countries and all but one state, North Dakota.
Cheryl is survived by her husband of almost 46 years, Darrel; son, Gregory; stepchildren, Deborah and Robert; grandchildren, Niles, Riley and Piper; along with her sister and brother-in-law, Cindy and Jack Gunnels and sister, Carla McWhorter.
A celebration of life will be held at 11:00 on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 in the Chapel at Brentwood United Methodist Church, 309 Franklin Road, Brentwood, Tennessee. A time of visitation with the family will be from 10:00 to 11:00 in the Chapel Narthex.
In lieu of flowers, a contribution to the Alzheimer's Association would be greatly appreciated.
An online guestbook is available at AustinFuneralService.com 615-377-0775.