Josephine R. Caughey

Josephine R. Caughey, 98, died March 3, 2012.

She had lived with daughter, Linda, and son-in-law, Jim Page, in Wasilla for a total of about seven years, coming back to Alaska the last time in June 2010.

She was 2 when she came to the United States by steamship with family from Italy and could remember arriving at Staten Island and seeing the Statue of Liberty. The family came cross-country by train, and she grew up on a dairy ranch in Santa Rosa, Calif.

In November 1937, she married Wayne Caughey and had been married 56 years when her husband died in 1994.

Josephine enjoyed outings with friends, watching TV game shows and most of all, playing a card game called casino. She could sit for hours playing this game.

Surviving are daughters, Joan Wimmer and Sharon Latson, both of Oregon; three grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Besides her husband, Josephine was preceded in death by one grandson, two sisters and four brothers.

No services are planned.