Lida Taylor

Lida Taylor can legitimately claim dual citizenship, in Virginia and Texas. Born in San Antonio, she spent her earliest years in Memphis, then moved to Lynchburg where her father started his law practice and she started elementary school at Garland-Rodes on Rivermont Avenue. Both her mother and her grandmother went to Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, but when Lida graduated from E.C. Glass High School, she left her hometown for the University of Georgia, where she majored in art.

After college and several years back in Lynchburg, teaching art in middle school, Lida went west for further study at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. With her BFA degree from SMU, she embarked on her long career teaching art in the Richardson Independent School District public schools. She was a docent at the Dallas Museum of Art and a member of the Junior League, professional associations of art teachers, singles clubs, Knife and Fork dinner club, Dallas 200, and Dallas Who’s Who, and made trips to Europe, Santa Fe, and Cuernavaca and San Miguel Allende in Mexico. After she retired from teaching, she was a sales associate at St. Bernard Sports in Dallas, as well as organizing activities.

With a brother in nearby Elon and a sister in Roanoke, several generations of Taylor and Ramsey relatives in Virginia, and long-time friends among her E.C. Glass classmates still in Lynchburg, Lida has truly come back home again with her January move to Westminster Canterbury. Her handsome Siamese cat, Belo (pronounced BEE low) accompanied Lida and her brother on the long drive back east, and has settled in contentedly in his new Virginia home.