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Josephine D. Gibney
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Josephine Gibney Obituary
Josephine was predeceased by her beloved husband, Carroll A. Gibney.
Josephine graduated from Turner's Falls High School in Turner's Falls, where most of her family resided. After high school, she moved to New York to pursue a career as a baby nurse with the Foundling Home.
After she married, she lived in Holyoke and West Yarmouth. After her husband passed away in 1962, she attended Cape Cod Community College and earned her LPN degree. She worked at Cape Cod Hospital and then enjoyed a long career with VNA of Cape Cod until her retirement.
Josephine loved knitting, needlepoint, Lawrence Welk, and doting on her great, great grand nieces and nephews (her babies).
Josephine is survived by her niece, Patricia Ann Webby and her husband Tom of Carver, niece, Diana Martin of Brockton, Catherine Helms of West Yarmouth, along with her children, Melissa Anthony, Elise and Tara, grandnephew, Larry Gallant and his wife Maryanne, grandniece, Sandra Power and her husband Glenn, their children, Jennifer and Stephanie, along with many great great grand nieces and nephews.
A funeral Mass will be held on Friday, June 19, at 10 a.m. in St. Francis Xavier Church, 347 South St., Hyannis. Burial will be private.
In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to a charity of one's choice.
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