Josephine Grace Muscato Payne was born in Gloversville, New York to Edward S. and Doris Jean Muscato on June 18,1950. Josephine was the eldest of five children.
Josephine (Joanie) as she lovingly liked to be called was employed at Twin Towers Senior Retirement Center. She spent more thirty years in the medical field. Joanie was a lover of dogs and most animals. Joanie loved sewing, especially needlepoint and making Halloween costumes, designing arts and crafts, cooking, shopping.
She was a family woman. Her smile and laughter were infectious and beamed brightly across her face daily. Joanie was a wife, a mother, a sister, an aunt, a friend and a spiritual loving woman.
She is survived by the love of her life and devoted husband Darnell Payne their five daughters, Kim, Vanessa, Nisa, Katy, Amy and one grandson DeAndre and eight granddaughters, Roszhawn, Naomi, Jhonell, Elizabeth (Lizzie), Giselle, Mya, Natalia, Nadia, one great grand-daughter Sky, two great grand-sons, Miguel, Giovanni, along with countless nieces and nephews, family and a whole host friends, neighbors and coworkers she deeply loved.
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