Soror Josephine Lightfoot Whitsett, Charter member of Gamma Iota, Lauded by the Charlotteville, Virginia Community
Josephine Lightfoot Whitsett, a retired high school counselor, devotes most of her time to her church, Ebenezer Baptist, and her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta. (The Daily Progress/Andrew Shurtleff)
Charlottesville has undergone some major transformations in the past eight decades. Schools have been desegregated. Neighborhoods have changed. The population has increased, as has traffic.
Josephine Lightfoot Whitsett, 84, has seen it all. Whitsett, who lives in the same house on Page Street in which she was born, worked as an educator in the city school system for nearly four decades and remains active in the community both through her public service sorority - Delta Sigma Theta - and her church - Ebenezer Baptist on Sixth Street.“I can’t even fathom the number of lives she has touched,” said Jacqueline Estes, who attended city schools and has taught at Charlottesville High School for 29 years. “She’s made a big impact across the city of Charlottesville on so many people, especially children.”
As a child, Whitsett fell in love with school.
“I was always infatuated with school,” Whitsett said. “And I like people, especially young people, so I think that motivated me to become a teacher.”
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