Joseph Wood “Woody” Richardson, a 90-year-old resident of Red Bluff, CA passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2002 after an extended stay in Mercy Hospital in Redding, CA. Mr. Richardson was a longtime resident of the Bay Area, having lived in Richmond, San Pablo and Concord. He was a former Trenton resident.
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Joseph Wood “Woody” Richardson, a 90-year-old resident of Red Bluff, CA passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2002 after an extended stay in Mercy Hospital in Redding, CA. Mr. Richardson was a longtime resident of the Bay Area, having lived in Richmond, San Pablo and Concord. He was a former Trenton resident.
Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2002 at Oakmont Memorial Park in Lafayette, CA.
Mr. Richardson was born on April 20, 1912 in Missouri, the son of Joseph A. and Rosa V. Richardson. He and his wife, Velma and children, moved to Richamond, CA in 1942 to work for his country in the Richmond Shipyards during World War II. He was in residential construction, building homes in the Bay Area and establishing a family construction company, Richardson and Sons. As an honorary member of Carpenters Local No. 152, he held the distinction of having the oldest membership until passing. At 62 years of age, he retired to the rural area of Cottonwood to run his mini-farm, where he developed extensive gardens and cared for chickens, pigs, rabbits and ducks. Later, moving to Red Bluff, he built an aviary to enjoy his long interest in canaries and parakeets. He cultured plants and flowers, having anual sales to local residents.
Mr. Richardson married Velma P. Watson on Dec. 27, 1933 in Trenton. She preceded him in death in 2001.
Mr. Richardson is survived by eight children, Donna Moorehead, Barbara McKeever, Ruth Bonini, Larry Richardson, Gary Richardson, Joseph Richardson, Linda Cantey and Carol DeLany; 19 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; one sister, Ruth Applegate of Washington; and one brother, Ronald Richardson of Missouri.
Mr. Richardson was preceded in death by his eldest son, Glen.