Josephine McConnell-Stewart

July 7, 1914 - December 17, 2006

MANSFIELD -- Josephine Zacek McConnell Stewart, 92, a homemaker, died Sunday, Dec. 17, 2006, at a Mansfield hospital. Funeral: 9 a.m. Thursday at Blessing Funeral Home. Burial: Mansfield Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Blessing Funeral Home. Josephine "Joscie" was born in Tarrant County on July 7, 1914, the youngest daughter and sixth of nine children born to Frank Sr. and Frances Miklis Zacek, who immigrated to Texas from Czechoslovakia. She was predeceased by her first husband, M.F. "Mack" McConnell, in 1968 and her second husband, Garvin S. Stewart, in 1986 and seven of her siblings Survivors: Brother, Jimmie Zacek of Fort Worth; daughter, Elizabeth Dodson of Mansfield; grandchildren, Mary Wallace and husband, Curtis, Elaine McCullough and husband, Michael, Jon Dodson and wife, Tess, Bryan Dodson and Dawn Moran, all of Mansfield; 10 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.