Louise Green Lipscomb

| Send Sympathy Card LIPSCOMB, Louise Green, born on July 8, 1930, in Nottoway County, Va., lived for many years in Richmond's Fan District before moving to Westminster Canterbury, where she died peacefully on November 25, 2015. A teacher, wife, mother and social worker, Mrs. Lipscomb was a woman of service who was not afraid to speak her mind. Yet she combined determination with compassion and a wicked sense of humor. Inspired by her educator parents, May Walton and Waverly Sydnor Green, she attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College, majoring in English Literature. After graduation, she taught briefly in the Amelia County Public School system and at St. Catherine's. A friend alerted her to a fellowship opportunity at the School of Social Work at what was then Richmond Professional Institute, where she studied with her mentor, Anne Fischer, and earned an MSW. She worked with autistic children and tutored children with learning disabilities at Memorial Child Guidance Clinic. At a dinner party in the early 1960s, she met Richard Harrison Lipscomb, a lawyer with the Seaboard Coastline Railroad and an amateur artist. They married, established a household in the Fan, and had two children. Mr. Lipscomb died in 1974. Mrs. Lipscomb was a long-time congregant of St James's Episcopal Church. In response to Richmond's growing homeless population in the 1980s, she established St. James's Food Force, a volunteer cooking team that continues to provide hearty meals for local social service centers. Her shepard's pie is still on the menu. In middle age, Mrs. Lipscomb returned to teaching at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Downtown Campus. She taught English for almost 20 years. One of her favorite reading assignments was Sophocles' Oedipus the King; students were riveted by the story line and she said she always discovered something new about the play in their class discussions. Mrs. Lipscomb served as a docent at the...

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