Parents

Daughter of Andy GREGORY & Alpharetta Mae GREEN.

Life History

Notes

• Josephine and her husband Jackie never had any children.  She always doted on her nieces and nephews and their children.  She crocheted afghans for them and their children, and she like to write letters to us,right to the year she died.  Josie always loved to cook desserts, even in her later years, when we were all older adults who needed to watch our weight.  Helping Aunt Jo cook on certain special occasions wasa highlight.
  
  For the last several years of her life, Josephine had various ailments, included complications from diabetes, including amputation of a toe.  In the last few years, her sister Gladys Loretta Gregory Gay was her legal guardian and care giver.  She was moved across the street from Loretta and Joe Gay in Lindsay to ease her care.  Their sister, my mother Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, also helped care for Josie in the lastfew months of her life, as she was mostly bedfast and in poor health after a fall that broke her hip and created other complications.
  
  Her sisters called her Josie; nieces and nephews called her Aunt Jo.That was how she would sign her letters to us.
  
  Josephine died in the Lindsay, Oklahoma, Hospital.  At the time of her death, Josephine was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church in Marlow, Oklahoma.
  
  Funeral services were held at Erin Springs Baptist Church, Erin Springs (Lindsay), Oklahoma, 25 June 2005, with burial following in the Green Hill Cemetery, Lindsay.

Sources

• 1. Alpharetta Mae Gregory, names in a Bible
• 2. Lindsay (Oklahoma) News, June 2005
  • Obituary of Alpha Josephine Hayes
• 3. 1930 Federal Census, Garvin County, Oklahoma
  • 12 April, Lindsay, District 10, page 7B, Hse #92, Fam #109
• 4. Various Gregory Family Sources
• 5. Marriage License
• 6. Lindsay (Oklahoma) News, June 2005
  • obituary of Alpha Josephine Gregory Hayes
• 7. Loretta Gregory Gay Genealogical Research
• 8. Lindsay (Oklahoma) News, June 2005
  • obituary of Alpha Josephine Hayes