R.I.P Rev. Timothy Wright

[anointedteacher]

Timothy Wright, New York gospel singer, dies less than year after crash that killed wife, grandson
BY Rich Schapiro
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Updated Friday, April 24th 2009, 10:12 AM

www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/04/24/2009-04-24_timothy_wright_famed_new_york_gospel_singer_dies_at_61.html

Nine months after a horrific car crash that killed his wife and grandson and left him paralyzed, the Rev. Timothy Wright - Brooklyn's Godfather of Gospel - has died.

"He will be tremendously missed, but his voice will be eternal," said Rev. Al Sharpton, a decades-long friend of Wright.

The famed Brooklyn pastor blessed with a booming voice and an artistic genius, passed away at the Bronx Veterans Hospital early Thursday. The Grammy-nominated gospel singer was 61.

"He certainly changed the feel of gospel music, and children not born in his lifetime will hear his music," Sharpton said.

"He has been a monumental figure in our community as a pastor."

Wright had been incapacitated since the July 4 accident that took the life of his wife, Betty, and his 14-year-old grandson, D.J.

The founder of Grace Tabernacle Christian Center in Crown Heights suffered a severe spinal cord injury, a broken jaw, broken ribs and multiple fractures in his legs in the crash.

The Wrights were returning to the city from a church conference in Detroit when a drunken driver heading the wrong way on a Pennsylvania highway hit their car head-on.

The driver, John Pick, 44, was killed in the crash.

Despite his critical injuries, Wright regularly traveled from his New Jersey rehabilitation clinic to Crown Heights to attend services at the church he started 18 years ago.

"I lost my wife, I lost my grandson, and for some reason, God left me here," Wright told WCBS-TV last October. "So here I am."

Over the course of his illustrious singing career, Wright released more than a dozen gospel albums. His 1994 record, "Come Thou Almighty King," was nominated for a Grammy.

[krazeeboi]

I was very, very saddened to hear that the good pastor had succumbed to his injuries. I think that the physical injuries, combined with the toll of the emotional trauma, may have been a little too much for him to bear. Well we know that God has the last say so in all matters. May he sleep well in Jesus.

[giantsdodie]

nooooooooooo he is a good friend of one of my friends.. God Bless His family...