Josie Morgan

Mrs. Josie Morgan age 82 of the Defeated Creek Community passed peacefully with all of her family at her bedside at her River Bluff Lane home on October 29, 2025 and was pronounced deceased at 4 p.m. by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston.
Mrs. Morgan was at the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Funeral services will be conducted by her pastor, Bro. Bryan Bratcher from the Kempville Chapel Old Time Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon November 2nd at 3 p.m. Burial will follow beside her husband Jimmy, on their family farm in the McClures Bend Community.
Visitation with the family will be on Sunday afternoon November 2nd from 2 p.m. until the 3 p.m. services at the church.
Mrs. Morgan led a storied life having been born in La Habana in Havanna, Cuba on July 9, 1943 to the late Julio Herrera and Josefa Hernadez Herrea.
Two Tampa, Florida children preceded her in death, Juantia Olivero and Frankie Olivero.
At the age of 12 in 1955 she immigrated to the United States to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she resided until relocating with her family to Tampa, Florida.
On June 22, 1983 she relocated to Tennessee with her family and with her future husband whom she met in Tampa in 1979.
In Carthage on November 10, 1984, she was united in marriage to Tampa native James Phillip (Jimmy) Morgan, who died as the result of cancer on June 12, 2004 at the age of 58 following only nineteen years of marriage.
Mrs. Morgan was saved at the age of 40 on October 8, 1983 and was baptized and joined the former Parthenia United Methodist Church in the McClures Bend Community.
At the time of her death she was, as long as health permitted, a faithful member of the Kempville Chapel Old Time Methodist Church.
While residing in Florida, she was employed as a printer at The Print Shop in Miami and later at Quick Copy Printing in Tampa.
After moving to Tennessee in 1983, she was employed at the former Tennplasco Co. in Carthage and will be best remembered as a cook in the deli at Martin's Grocery for over twelve years. Also, during her career she was a certified nurse assistant and was employed both at the former Carthage General Hospital and at the former Smith County Health Care. She also worked as a caregiver to many in the community.
One of the highlights of her life was when she received her American citizenship at the age of 78 and which enabled her to vote in the last Presidential election for the first time and she was so excited.
Josie possessed the kindest spirit and always put others before herself. Everyone who knew her, and especially in the Defeated Creek Community, held her in such high esteem as a friend and neighbor.
Surviving are three children, Veronica Sanderson-Fulton of the Defeated Creek Community, Reuben Olivero and wife Kitty, Danny Olivero and wife Laura all of Tampa, Florida.
Brother, Julio Herrera of Madrid, Spain, nine grandchildren, Denice Hunter and husband Dewayne of the Rock City Community, Kelly Lane Moody and husband Johnny of the Defeated Creek Community, Nicky Jean Lane and fiancée Nick of Gallatin, Amanda Davis and husband Bryan of Carthage, Jennifer, Erika, Alexis, Megan and Samantha Olivero all of Tampa, Florida; twenty-one grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.
Pallbearers: Danny & Reuben Olivero, Dewayne Hunter, Jonathan Moody, Bryan David, &
Nick Currie