Josephine Kubovcik

Born in Larksville, Pennsylvania, Josephine was the last of five daughters of Paul and Anna Kubovcik. She grew up in a Slovak community, and she never forgot her Slovak heritage. In the early 1940s, the family moved to New Jersey, where Josephine made many lifelong friends and graduated from West Side High School in Newark. The quintessential working woman when that was not the fashion in the 1950s, Josephine rose through the bookkeeping ranks in several Newark businesses. In her twenty-seven years at the Newark Star-Ledger, she was instrumental in the transition to technology in the accounting department until her retirement in the late 1990s.

A fun-loving, generous aunt, she was devoted to her nine nieces and nephews and, later, her grand-nieces and -nephews. Baking was her forte; no Christmas was complete without hundreds of meticulously decorated Christmas cookies. And holidays always featured traditional Slovak dishes.

In 2013, Josephine moved to Massachusetts to be closer to extended family and was joined by her sisters Elizabeth Gray and Marie Bauman soon after (they both pre-deceased her). She is also pre-deceased by her sisters Pauline Sinisi and Anna (Nancy) Francisco. A funeral Mass will be held on December 15 at 11 a.m. at St. John the Baptist Church, 126 Nesbitt Street, Larksville, Pennsylvania. Interment will be with her parents in St. Anthony Cemetery, Larksville.