In loving memory
Thomas Vincent Wright
August 28, 1940 – December 9, 2022
Lived 82 years
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1940
Born August 28
1947
Thomas was 7 when Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier
1957
Thomas was 17 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik
1962
Thomas was 22 when John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth
1963
Married Nancy Ann Wright
1976
Thomas was 36 when America celebrated its Bicentennial
1989
Thomas was 49 when the Berlin Wall fell
1998
Thomas was 58 when "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was published in America
2007
Thomas was 67 when the first iPhone went on sale
2010
Thomas was 70 when Instagram was launched
2020
Thomas was 80 when SpaceX launched astronauts into orbit for the first time
2022
Passed away December 9, age 82
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