Individual Details

Mary Velma Ritter, known as Velma, was born 16 May 1898 and died 12 January 1984. She married Lawrence Jerome Bright, who was born 23 September 1898 in Monroe County, Mississippi, and died 26 December 1989 at Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi. He was the son of John E. and Mollie (Crenshaw) Bright. Velma attended Mississippi State Teachers' College in Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi (now the University of Southern Mississippi) and received her degree in elementary education from Mississippi State University. She taught first in Amory, Monroe County, Mississippi, and several Monroe County schools before joining the faculty as a second grade teacher at Becker, Mississippi, where she taught until retirement, after thirty-nine years as a teacher. She and her family were members of the Becker Baptist Church.

There was one child born of the marriage.

Birth	16 May 1898	Mississippi
Marriage	1926	Lawrence Jerome Bright
Death	12 Jan 1984	Becker, Monroe Co., Mississippi
Burial		Masonic Cemetery, Amory, Monroe Co., Mississippi

Spouse	Lawrence Jerome Bright (1897 - 1989)
Child	Patricia Ann Bright (1935 - 2018)

Father	Stephen David Ritter (1866 - 1947)
Mother	Sallie Annice Kirkpatrick (1871 - 1953)
Sibling	Augustus Houston Ritter (1895 - 1986)
Sibling	Luna Jane Ritter (1900 - 1926)
Sibling	Nova Lou Ritter (1904 - 1994)
Sibling	Annabel Ritter (1907 - 1999)
Sibling	Naomi Opal Ritter (1910 - 1993)