Lloyd Ormond Bishop, 90, of Harrisonburg, died September 17, 2023, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Mr. Bishop was born on June 11, 1933, in Portland, Maine, the only son of Lloyd Willard Bishop and Marjorie Ormon
Bishop.
Agraduate of Bowdoin College (B.A., summa cum laude), Middlebury College (M.A.), and Columbia University (Ph.D.),
he was a scholar and professor of French language and literature. He spent extended periods of time studying in France as
a Fulbright Scholar and graduate student. While living at Columbia’s International House, he met the love of his life, Julia
Winston Smith, and married her the same year (1958).
Mr. Bishop taught at Vanderbilt University, the University of Maine, and the University of North Carolina in the
1960s. From 1969 to 1996, he taught at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, where he won several teaching awards and was
elected to the university’sAcademy of Teaching Excellence. He enjoyed researching special topics in French literature,
authoring articles and books on romanticism, comedy, and stylistic criticism, and one book outside his field: In Defense of
Altruism
After retiring in 1996, Mr. and Mrs. Bishop moved to New Bern, North Carolina, where he served as volunteer editor of a
newsletter advocating for clean rivers and wetlands, published by the Neuse River Foundation.
The Bishops moved to Harrisonburg in 2000, and began living at Sunnyside Retirement Community soon afterward. For
many years, Mr. Bishop volunteered as an English language and literacy tutor at Skyline Literary Agency. He loved
reading, writing, listening to music, spending time with family, and vacationing near lakes and oceans.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Bishop is survived by a son, Lloyd Willard Bishop II and daughter in law Bonnie; a daughter,
Norris Bishop Phillips and son in law Jeff; granddaughter, Alexa Phillips and grandson in law Niko; and a grandson, Cole
Phillips.
At Mr. Bishop’s request, his body will be cremated and all services will be held privately.