Thomas L. Richardson

© Enid News and Eagle

05-2008

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

The funeral services for Dr. Thomas L. Richardson, life-long Enid resident will be Tuesday, May 20, 2008, at 10 a.m. in the Central Christian Church Chapel. The Rev. Don Johnson will officiate. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Henninger-Allen Funeral Home. The family will meet with friends in the parlor room at 9:15 a.m. before the service.

Dr. Richardson died while at home Friday, May 16, 2008. He was born on February 8, 1907, just months before Oklahoma became a state. He lived all of his 101 years in Enid. He graduated from Enid High School in 1924, and spent his collegiate years at Phillips University and was president of his dental class at Northwestern University Dental School in Chicago, graduating cum laude with a DDS degree from there in 1930. On returning to Enid, he set up his dental practice at the then new Broadway Tower building and practiced there until he retired in 1979. Dentistry ran in the family, his father, Louis R. Richardson practiced dentistry in Enid, his son, Tom, and grandson, Steven are practicing dentists in Colorado Springs. He marreid Dorothy Loraine Hague of Enid in October of 1935, and they would have celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary just two days before her death in 1990.

Active both during his career and after retirement, he was a co-founder of the Oakwood Country Club in 1946, president of the American Businessmen’s Club (ABC) of Enid in the 1940’s, founder and president of the Enid Investor’s Club in 1953, president of the Phillips University Alumni Association in the 1980’s, and president of RSVP (Retired Senior Volunteer Program) in Enid for two years, also in the 80’s. He was a member of Central Christian Church of Enid.

He is survived by two sons, Ken L. Richardson of Monument, Colorado, and Dr. Thomas H. Richardson of Colorado Springs, Colorado; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Central Christian Church.

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