Dr. Lloyd Douglas Richardson

1947 - 2025

Dr. L. Douglas Richardson, 77, former Medical Director of Laboratories at River Oaks Hospital, died June 29, 2025 from complications of pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Richardson was born in Memphis, TN but at an early age relocated with his family to Clinton, MS where his father established a dental practice. A graduate of Clinton Public Schools and Mississippi College, Douglas received his MD degree from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1973. He pursued his graduate study at St. Mary's Hospital, London, England and his post graduate study at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, and the Karolinska Sjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.

From 1980-1982 he was on the Faculty of Vanderbilt University Medical School and was Associate Clinical Director of Laboratories at Vanderbilt Hospital. In 1982 he was named Chief of Pathology and Director of Laboratories at Research Medical Center, Kansas City, MO and Associate Clinical Professor of Pathology at the University of Missouri Medical Center and at Kansas University Medical Center.

In 1991 he returned to Mississippi and practiced Pathology at River Oaks Hospital until his retirement in 2013. He was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honorary academic medical society and held fellowship status inthe College of American Pathology and the American Society of Clinical Pathology. He was certified in four areas of subspecialty practice by the American Board of Pathology and was Associate Clinical Professor of Pathology at the University of Mississippi Medical School. His areas of special interest research and publication included chemical pathology, laboratory automation, digital image processing, and fine needle aspiration biopsy.

Dr. Richardson is preceded in death by his wife, Dr. Patricia A. VanDecar, as well as, his father, Dr. Lloyd B. Richardson, mother Jimmie Westmoreland Reynolds, sister Beverly Richardson Smith, and a granddaughter Zia Elizabeth Richardson.

Survivors include his sons Jeffery Richardson (Morgan), Jay Richardson (Jessica) Kevin Richardson, foster son Thomas M. Price, Jr., and brother Brian Richardson. Dr Richardson's grandchildren are Jaron Richardson, Talia Ramos, and Isley Richardson.

A previous marriage to Elizabeth Steel ended in divorce.

A visitation for Lloyd will be held Saturday, July 5, 2025 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Lakewood Funeral Home, 6011 Clinton Blvd, Jackson, MS 39209, followed by a memorial service at 12:00 PM.

Contributions to Dr. Richardson's favored causes, Doctors Without Borders and the Animal Rescue Fund of MS, will be greatly appreciated.

An honest man here lies at rest.

As e'er God with His image blest:

The friend of man, the friend of truth;

The friend of age, and guide of youth:

Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd,

Few heads with knowledge so inform'd:

If there's another world, he lives in bliss;

If there is none, he made the best of this.

Robert Burns, "Epitaph on My Owen Friend"