Rev. Timothy Wright Was Known As The "Grandfather Of Gospel Music"! May God Rest His Soul Peacefully!!

The famed NY gospel singer,Rev.Timothy Wright has died less than a year after the fatal car crash that took both his wife & grandson.At the age of 61,Reverend Wright has departed this earth to join an angelic choir.We know that the "godfather of gospel music" will bring even more harmony to the other side than there already is.Here's more on the death of this gospel icon from The NY Daily News:

"Nine months after a devastating car crash 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 the Rev. Al Sharpton, a decades-long friend of Wright.

The famed Brooklyn pastor blessed with a booming voice and an artistic genius died at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center Thursday. The Grammy-nominated 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.

Wright gradually regained the ability to speak before he suffered a heart attack three months ago, his son, David, said.

"I'm glad his suffering is over," David Wright, 30, added. "He was a great man of God and a great father."

The Wrights were returning to the city from a church conference in Detroit when a drunken driver going 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."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.