Josephine Stokes (1940)

Josephine Stokes was born on December 29, 1919 in Alexandria, Virginia, to mother, Josephine, and father, William. The 1930 Census listed William’s occupation as a laborer at a fertilizer plant and Josephine’s occupation as a laundress at a hospital. Josephine Stokes graduated from the Piedmont Nurse Training Program in May 1940. In 1949, when Josephine married Marvin Ragland in Alexandria, her occupation was listed as a nurse. Josephine Stokes Ragland died in 1989, and is buried at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC.