Roxanne W. Brinson, former RRHA manager, remembered
Jeremy M. Lazarus | 8/3/2023, 6 p.m.
Roxanne White Brinson wore multiple hats in seeking to benefit others.
Mrs. Brinson worked with public housing residents for 30 years as a member of the housing management staff of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, and was a senior housing manager when she retired.
She also was a founder of a mentoring ministry, a catering ministry and a homeless services ministry at Fifth Baptist Church in Richmond where she taught Sunday School for nearly 20 years.
When not serving in her church, Mrs. Brinson greeted people with kindness as they came to make arrangements or participate in services at Joseph Jenkins Jr. Funeral Home.
Described by her family as a “warm, genuine and loving person,” Mrs. Brinson, who died at age 72 on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, is being remembered for the multiple ways she touched the lives of people who knew her. Family and friends gathered Thursday, July 27, at Jenkins Funeral Home to pay final tributes to the Richmond native who was born in the Randolph area.
A graduate of Maggie L. Walker High School, Mrs. Brinson graduated from Shaw University where she met her future husband, Elbert M. Brinson. She later earned a master’s from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Along with her husband, survivors include two daughters, Marvise Y. Brinson and Onya U. Brinson; two brothers, the Rev. Ernest H. White Jr. and Henry R. “Ron” White; and a grandson.
