William Joshua Doss Richerson (died 1976) was an athlete, with skills in shot put, discus,[1] javelin, and football.
[2] He was married to Kansas City, Missouri artist Modesta Pearl Dorset Richerson.
Richerson's mother wrote a biography of the Richardson family of Texas, noting that she was born a Richardson, but had married into the Richerson family.
In her book, she talks in length about her son's sports abilities in high school and college.
In 1976, Doss Richerson died of a blood clot to the brain after sustaining a head injury from a three-story fall from a building that he was painting.