Josephine was raised in a quaint small town in “the thumb” of Michigan in a close extended family.  Music and nursing were her passions.  She became a psychiatric nurse and worked while her husband attended college.  Work opportunities took them to Chicago.  Years later they returned to “the thumb” and renovated her ancestral home.  She enjoys her daughter and granddaughter who live nearby.  “The Ordeal” is her first book and she is working on another true story involving hardship and duplicity.