Robert W. Wright, a law firm senior partner, specialized in mergers and acquisitions for corporations such as Montgomery Wards. Mr. Wright, 76, of Harvard, died of complications from leukemia Sunday, Aug. 8, in Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Mr. Wright was born in Elgin and raised in Bartlett. He developed a hobby making furniture and cabinets through his father, who managed a lumberyard chain. He graduated in 1950 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he majored in industrial engineering. He graduated in 1954 from Harvard Law School and married Nancy Tucker. They moved to Chicago, and he joined the law firm, MacLeish, Spray, Price and Underwood. When he retired in 1990, the firm was called Keck, Mahin and Cate. “He always encouraged us to go out and do the things we wanted, but he never pushed,” said his daughter, Patricia Felker. While living in Kenilworth, he served as village trustee from 1982 to 1985 and then president from 1985 to 1989. He served on the New Trier Mental Health Advisory Board, was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Club of Chicago and the Chicago Club. Other survivors include his wife; a son, Robert; another daughter, Katherine Schaul; a sister, Jane Norris; and three granddaughters. Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Wednesday in St. Ann’s Episcopal Church, 503 W. Jackson St., Woodstock.
