Anne Hume Risher

Anne Hume Nash Risher

Anne Hume Nash Risher, 89, died Thursday, January 6, 2011, at her residence.

She was born February 8, 1921, in Norfolk.

She moved to Charlottesville at an early age and considered Charlottesville her home until moving to Lynchburg in 1950.

Anne attended local and private schools in Charlottesville and graduated from Saint Margaret's School in Tappahannock. During World War II, she was active in the Red Cross. She also worked in a munitions plant in Radford.

After World War II, Anne became President of the University League, now the Junior League of Charlottesville. While President, she founded "The Opportunity Shop". It was a success from the start. The shop receives donated clothes and sells them to the public, with proceeds going to deserving charities.

On April 10, 1948, she married John Calhoun Risher; they moved to Lynchburg in 1950. Soon after coming to Lynchburg, Anne was made chairman of the Cot Committee, an organization that helped low income patients obtain hospital admission. She was a member of the Florence Crittendon Board for many years. When the Lynchburg General Hospital moved to its present location, she and a group of ladies founded the Lynchburg General Hospital Womens' Auxilliary. She was a member of Saint John's Episcopal Church.

She is survived by her husband, John Risher; her daughter, Alice Risher Painter and son-in-law James W. Painter, of Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Anne also had three granddaughters, Lauren Painter, Amy Albright and her husband, Ian, and Anne Corbin and her husband, Aaron; and five great-grandchildren, Eliana, Teana, and Lacy Albright, and Daniel and Jonas Corbin.

A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Monday, January 10, 2011. at Saint John's Episcopal Church, 200 Boston Avenue, Lynchburg, Virginia.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a charity of your choice.

Friends may send condolences to the family at www.hillandwood.com.


This obituary was originally published in the Daily Progress.