HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Josephine L. Daigle died May 20, in Hollywood, Fla.

She was born April 23, 1925, in Lewiston, to James and Mary Lobozzo. She graduated from Edward Little High School in Auburn, and from St. Mary’s School of Nursing in 1946.

Her nursing through the years consisted of staff nursing mostly in the areas of medical surgical and intensive care nursing. At the time of her retirement, she was assistant director of nursing at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston.

She was married to Beecher C. Casson Jr. in 1947, who predeceased her in 1971. She remarried in 1991 to M. Roland Daigle at which time they retired to Hollywood, Fla. She attended St. Maurice Church in Davie, Fla.

Because of her own affliction of macular degeneration, she attended classes at the Lighthouse of Broward County to learn how to function independently with her disability and later became a volunteer to help others with similar visual impairments.

She is survived by her husband, M. Roland Daigle of Hollywood, Fla.; six children, John Cassson of Orlando Fla., James Casson of Lewisville, Texas, Tony Casson of Hollywood, Fla., Kathryn Casson Peters and her husband, Larry Peters, of Springfield, Va., and Kelly Casson Grover of South Paris; one stepdaughter, Adrienne Daigle Harrison and her husband, Robert, of Plainville, Mass.; one brother, Alexander Lobozzo and his wife, Dorothy Lobozzo, of Auburn; 11 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

She was predeceased by two brothers. Sam Lobozzo of Auburn and George Lobozzo of Geneva, Switzerland; two stepchildren, Larry Daigle of Wrentham, Mass., and Laurel Brooke of Provincetown, Mass.