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Josephine Ford Ross
In 1908, the seventh child born into George and Victoria’s family was Josephine Ford.
Josephine loved the Lord’s work and served her church faithfully. When she was young,
the songs she had learned, while in college, she taught to the choir at Roans Chapel and
would often sing duets with her favorite cousin, Daisy. She would later marry Jack Ross
and give birth to four children: Jack Jr., Doris Rae, Charles Melvin and Darrell Lynn.
Josephine and her husband were the driving forces for her siblings moving to Vancouver,
Washington to work at the Kaiser Shipyard in the 1940’s. After the shipyard closed,
instead of returning to Texas like other family members, Josephine and Jack moved their
family to Seattle, Washington. Unfortunately, her husband would die shortly after their
move, forcing Josephine to work very hard to keep her family together.