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Josephine Priscilla Whiting

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Josephine Priscilla Whiting

Birth
Upton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
16 Feb 1990 (aged 92)
Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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age 92
daughter of
Irving Hammond Whiting
and
Grace Mitchel ( Clark) Whiting

Joephine was born and raised on her parent's family farm.
She graduated from Upton High School and a college in Philadelphia, Pa. with a degree in Domestic Science.

She taught art, sewing and embroidery at the Girls Trade School in Worcester Ma.,for a few years.
Josephine was a very beautiful and talented woman.

After studying the Catholic history for three years, she was received into the Catholic Church on June 22, 1922, at St. Paul's Cathedral in Worcester.
On her 25 birthday she received her first Holy Communion and was confirmed.

She entered the Holy Union of Sacred Hearts March 4, 1924.
After a varied apostolate at the Fall River Academy, Sacred Heart Parochial School, and Patchogue, she was sent to open a new mission at Mon Lewis Island, Alabama.

After a few detours she became a grade school teacher at St. Anthony's school in Taunton, Ma. until it's closing.

After retirement she enjoyed sewing, knitting and crocheting articles to sell, and visiting the sick and elderly at the Marian Manor, a home for senior citizens.

Barbara's Clark
and Whiting
family research
age 92
daughter of
Irving Hammond Whiting
and
Grace Mitchel ( Clark) Whiting

Joephine was born and raised on her parent's family farm.
She graduated from Upton High School and a college in Philadelphia, Pa. with a degree in Domestic Science.

She taught art, sewing and embroidery at the Girls Trade School in Worcester Ma.,for a few years.
Josephine was a very beautiful and talented woman.

After studying the Catholic history for three years, she was received into the Catholic Church on June 22, 1922, at St. Paul's Cathedral in Worcester.
On her 25 birthday she received her first Holy Communion and was confirmed.

She entered the Holy Union of Sacred Hearts March 4, 1924.
After a varied apostolate at the Fall River Academy, Sacred Heart Parochial School, and Patchogue, she was sent to open a new mission at Mon Lewis Island, Alabama.

After a few detours she became a grade school teacher at St. Anthony's school in Taunton, Ma. until it's closing.

After retirement she enjoyed sewing, knitting and crocheting articles to sell, and visiting the sick and elderly at the Marian Manor, a home for senior citizens.

Barbara's Clark
and Whiting
family research


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