JOSEPHINE O. BIGGER

Mrs. Josephine O. Bigger, 93, of 309 South 4th Street, died at 1:17 p.m. Saturday (March 24, 2007) in Blessing Hospital.

Born March 6, 1914 in Hannibal, MO., Josephine was the daughter of Andrew Jackson and Cora Maude Haskins Fortner. She married Walter Bigger in 1932. He died on August 23, 1944.

Mrs. Bigger was employed as the cafeteria manager at the International Shoe Company until its closing. She was then employed as the supervisor of the housekeeping department at the Holiday Inn until her retirement.

Surviving is a son, Roger Bigger of Quincy; a grandson, Greg Bigger of Chicago; a brother, Lee Fortner and his wife Betty of Quincy; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a sister, Frances Gustison; an infant sister; a brother, Kenneth Fortner; and four half brothers and sisters.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 in the Zehender Robinson Stormer Cookson Funeral Home by Rev. Marcus Burden of Cleveland, OH. Burial will be in Greenmount Cemetery.

Visitation will be held Wednesday afternoon from 1:00 until the time of services at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to the Quincy Humane Society.

Jo had many projects during her 30 years of retirement. She enjoyed auctioning and reading and especially loved embroidering tea towels which she gave away. She out lived her husband by 63 years and lived alone for all that time with her dogs and birds. Her only son, Roger, lived close by and they lovingly spent the last 20 years together. She always said, "I was born poor, but I'll die rich." Rich in the way she was loved, and she made it.