Gonzales, Josephine
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Thibodaux Comet; Feb. 8, 1940, Thursday
Submitted by Cynthia F. Daigle

Mrs. Gonzales, 104, Dies

(from Donaldsonville Chief)

Mrs. Josephine Gonzales, a native of Ascension parish and a resident of the city 
of New Orleans for the past 30 years, died Tuesday at 9:50 o'clock a.m. at the 
Charity hospital at the advanced age of 104 years. Death is said to have been 
due to complications arising from a fall five days before at her residence, 1123 
Thalia Street.

Mrs. Gonzales, nee Josephine Hidalgo, was the wife of the late Manuel Joseph 
Gonzales. She was very active all her life and it is said that less than a year 
ago she stepped into a beauty parlor for the first permanent wave of her life.

In an interview last year, she is said to have complained playfully that "the 
younger generation doesn't give it's parents enough freedom", adding that "every 
time I want to go to a picture show, I have to ___ out of the back door".  She 
would have been 105 years old in March.