Dateline: Charlotte, NC
Mrs. Resilda Thompson Richards, age 92 passed away peacefully Thursday, November 2, 2017.
The body will lie in state on Friday, November 10th and Saturday, November 11th, from 12 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Wilkinson Funeral Home. Friends and family may come by and pay their respects, but no formal services will be conducted. Resilda will then be flown home to her native Jamaica where and she will be laid to rest.
Resilda was born August 31, 1925 in Manchester, Jamaica, a daughter to the late John Thompson and Eliza Blair. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Basil Richards; one son and one sister.
She was loved by so many who are left to cherish her memory; daughters, Pauline Johnson of Charlotte, Ladonna Richards and Geneva Richards of Atlanta, GA, Louise Martin and Hermine Nelson of Torrington, CT; sons, Tyrone and Clive Richards of CA, Thomas Reid of Jamaica and Vincent Bennett of CT; sister, Justine Brown of Texas; brother, William Brown of Jamaica; numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild and a host of other loving relatives and friends.