Cindy Richardson Madden will educate Minden Lions Club Thursday (today) with the history of E.S. Richardson.
Madden is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Richardson and the wife of Jerry Madden. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Louisiana Tech University and a Master of Arts in Music from Northwestern State University. She is currently teaching music in her 54th year privately after retiring from teaching music 27 years for the Webster Parish School Board.
After retirement in 2016, she immersed herself in the hobby of genealogy and has traveled extensively to locate family history. She is a member of many heritage organizations and is the president of the Susan Constant Chapter Colonial Dames XVII Century and is the State Vice President of that organization. She is the first Honorary Chapter Regent for the Dorcheat-Bistineau Chapter DAR and served at State Service for Veterans Committee Chairman for the Louisiana Society Daughters of the American Revolution in the Gott Administration. She is now serving as the DAR/SAR/SR Committee Chairman for LSDAR in the Collins Administration.
She was awarded Woman of the Year by the Young Women’s Service Club at the Greater Minden Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet in 2023. She continues to serve veterans as Deputy VAVS representative for NSDAR at Overland Brooks Veterans Hospital in Shreveport. She is vice president of the Webster Council on Aging.
She recently presented a program on her great uncle, Dr. E. S. Richardson, at the Dorcheat Museum and the same program for the North Louisiana Historical Association. Jerry and Cindy were the guest speakers for the Galvez Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution in Lafayette for their Good CitizenAwards Banquet recently.
She and her husband, Jerry, feel it is their mission is to honor all our military service men and women, past and present, and promote patriotism wherever possible.
Madden will be introduced by Lion Philip McInnis.
Minden Lions Club meets at noon every Thursday in the American Legion Hall on Pine Street.