 
Wright, Vestell
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Comments: After graduating from OHS in ’65, I attended BYU on a full
basketball scholarship. After my freshman year I served a mission in Chile and opened a branch down on
the Straights of Magellan – Punta Arenas – great experience. I even played against the touring Globe
Trotters. Upon returning stateside I intended to play ball but was offered a job teaching missionaries at
the old Language Training Mission (before it was called the Mission Training Center). I did that for 3
years until I graduated from the “Y” in 1971. I spent the next 1.5 years managing a tourist resort in
Jackson, Wyoming. My second daughter was born there in the middle of the worst winter storm in history.
We lived 50 miles from town and the roads were closed, but the Teton Nat’l Forest and Teton National Park
created a caravan behind two snow blower trucks and led us into town. She was born early the next morning
and Paul Harvey used the story on national radio.
I went back to the MBA program at University of Utah and
went into real estate in SLC. I moved back to Ogden in 1976 and bought some land and subdivided and built
homes until the crash in 1983-84. I got together with an old missionary companion and created a
retirement benefit marketing program and we sold and administered 401(k) Plans and Cafeteria Plans. I was
recruited by a company in Austin, TX and moved here in 1986 and have been here since.
I created a mortgage company in 1996 and have remained as a
mortgage banker since then. I have served as a University Branch President (before they were wards),
counselor in two bishoprics, high counselor and about every other calling at the ward level. I currently
teach the High Priest’s Group (2012) and serve as stake Financial Resources Specialist.
My beautiful wife Debbie and I have 10 children, 17
grandchildren and my first great grand daughter was born over this recent Christmas holiday. My youngest
is a 16 year old son and he plays basketball for Austin High. I’ll retire after he gets back from a
mission.
So great to see all those faces I remember
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