Mrs. Walter A. Richards was the wife of Walter Alan Richards. She was the former Margaret Gordon, born in Columbus on Nov. 4, 1895 and died in August 1970. She married Richards on Dec. 22, 1917. She attended Lorena Hall, a girls’ school in Columbus, Georgia, the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia and Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia. The antebellum Greek revival mansion “Gordonido” on Wynnton Road was owned by Mrs. Richards’ parents and had been built in 1837. The Richards lived there as did their daughter and husband, Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Feighner.