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Josephine Mercedes “Josie” <I>Becker</I> Drane

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Josephine Mercedes “Josie” Becker Drane

Birth
Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi, USA
Death
1960 (aged 74–75)
Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi, USA
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Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
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Josie was the fourth child of F.F. and Mary Ellen Becker. She grew up in Brookhaven as a loved and care-free child before going to Ursuline College in New Orleans and marrying Lewis Thomas Drane of Clarksville, TN, in 1906. They had four children, named for the four grandparents, and were happily married until tragedy struck, and Lewis died in New Orleans in the flu epidemic after World War I. Josie moved back to Brookhaven to raise her children amid the support of her family. After the children were grown, Josie moved back and forth to each household, helping with her numerous grandchildren, and then moving in permanently with her son, Tupper to care for his children in the absence of his divorced wife. Tragedy struck again when Tupper drowned in a boating accident in 1950, and Josie again was faced with the task of raising a family with no father in the home. Josie's family felt that she was a very special person, strong and wonderful, who with raising two families and all she did for so many, deserved to be named "Woman of the Century."

(The above information was obtained from her mother's biography, written by Mary Roy Drane Swanson, for "The 1994 Reunion of the Becker Family" and donated to this memorial by Bettie Hatcher Cox.)
Josie was the fourth child of F.F. and Mary Ellen Becker. She grew up in Brookhaven as a loved and care-free child before going to Ursuline College in New Orleans and marrying Lewis Thomas Drane of Clarksville, TN, in 1906. They had four children, named for the four grandparents, and were happily married until tragedy struck, and Lewis died in New Orleans in the flu epidemic after World War I. Josie moved back to Brookhaven to raise her children amid the support of her family. After the children were grown, Josie moved back and forth to each household, helping with her numerous grandchildren, and then moving in permanently with her son, Tupper to care for his children in the absence of his divorced wife. Tragedy struck again when Tupper drowned in a boating accident in 1950, and Josie again was faced with the task of raising a family with no father in the home. Josie's family felt that she was a very special person, strong and wonderful, who with raising two families and all she did for so many, deserved to be named "Woman of the Century."

(The above information was obtained from her mother's biography, written by Mary Roy Drane Swanson, for "The 1994 Reunion of the Becker Family" and donated to this memorial by Bettie Hatcher Cox.)

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