Wife to:                      Married Dorsey Winfield Read 1927.  Mills Co., Tx
                                   

Mother to:                 Wesley Winfield Read
                                    James Dorsey Read

Her Parents:              Millard F. Wallace     born GA 1856, married 1879 Marion, LA
                                    Emma Josephine White Wallace born LA. Aug 12, 1861
 

Her Grand Parents:  John B. Wallace (father, died 1863)
                                    Mary B. Wallace (mother)   

                                    James T. White (father born 1814 North Carolina)
                                    Martha Allen White (mother born 1825 North Carolina)

This is a map of Marion, Louisiana where her parents and extended family on both sides lived.

FORT WORTH - Josephine W. Read died Tuesday, March 7, 2000, in Fort Worth in the home of her son, where she had lived since 1990.

Memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 18, in the First Baptist Church Chapel in Ballinger. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery in Ballinger.

Jo was born Jan. 5, 1907, in Goldthwaite to Millard F. Wallace and E. Josephine White Wallace. She married Dorsey W. Read in 1927 in Mills County. She attended Southwest Texas State Teachers College, Mary Hardin Baylor in Belton and Sul Ross State University in Alpine and graduated from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. She was a longtime resident of Runnels County and Rowena.

She was a news reporter and worked for the San Angelo Standard-Times until her retirement in 1990. Her interest and curiosity about people and news events continued until the time of her death.

Jo had been a member of the First Baptist Church in Ballinger since 1934. She also was a member of the Shakespeare Study Club that merged into the Woman's Club and served several years as president of the Carnegie Library board of directors in Ballinger.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Dorsey, on Dec. 19, 1957; a son, James Dorsey Read in 1986; and a grandson, Robert Read in October 1989.

Survivors include a son, W. Winfield Read and his wife, Charlene, of Fort Worth; a daughter-in-law, Kay Box Read of Albany, Ga.; two grandsons, Michael Read of Onalaska and Mark Read of Overland Park, Kan.; four granddaughters, Robin Carney of Grand Prairie, Alicia Jones of Scottsdale, Ariz., Karen Lacey of Fort Worth and J'Ann Taylor of Lufkin; and six great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to the Carnegie Library in Ballinger.