Giuseppe married Angelina Arena and had one child. Salvatore (1892 - 1963) was a Jesuit priest. Concetta married Mariano Prinzi and had four children, Maria, Jo, Biagio and Pina. Giovannina married a Faso and had one son. The other three sisters never married. Roasario, Giuseppina’s father, was a barber and had the only barber shop in town. He married Giovanna Indorante in June 1916. Rosario died on October 7, 1919.

In 1924, Giovanna married Rosario (Sam) Giglio. They lived in Sam’s home town of Ciminna.


Photo: Giovanna & Rosario (Sam) Giglio, circa 1950, California

Giuseppina was left to live with her maternal grandmother, Georgia Passantino Indorante in Caccamo. Sam and Giovanna had one daughter, Rosina born May 10, 1925. In 1926, Sam, Giovanna and Rose left Italy for America. Giuseppina was left in Italy with her grandmother. Giovanna was eight months pregnant at the time, and had to hide her pregnancy from Italian authorities in order to travel. In 1926 Gina was born in New York city, but died at the age of two from diphtheria.


Photo: Josephine & grandmother Giovanna, circa 1929. Josephine had just cut her hair for her passport photo.

Josephine was loved and well treated by her grandfather, aunts and uncle (Salvatore Faso) who taught her piano. He played many instruments and gave music lessons. Her grandfather Giovanni played the drums in the town band. He lived to be 100 years old, at which time the whole town celebrated his birthday with a huge cake and confetti of several colors. The Pope sent him a gold ring on this occasion.

Photo: Fr. Salvatore & Giovanni Faso, Giovanni's 100th birthday, 1957

On December 13, 1929 Georgia passed away. On April 30, 1930 Josephine left Caccamo for Palermo where she met her paternal grandfather, Nicasio Indorante for the first time. On May 1, 1930 she left Palermo for Naples, and on May 4 left Naples for America. She spent 7 unhappy days on the ship, crying and begging the captain to return to Italy. On May 11, she arrived I New York city. She was met by her mother, Sam, sister Rose and baby Salvatore (who was born February 5, 1930.) They were all as strangers to her. The next 5 years were very hard for her, because she wanted to return to Italy. She went to school and was placed in the third grade. In two years she graduated from the eighth grade with honors. She had the lead in the graduation play. She was not allowed to go to high school, but had to work on the sewing machine for her mother. She was not allowed to date, but occasionally was allowed to go out with a girl friend.

Photo: circa 1950

She became friends with one of the girls that worked in her mother’s shop. Through her, she met her friend's brother Johnny Danielo and fell in love. They became engaged in 1939, much to the objection of her mother. Johnny wanted to elope, but she did not want to hurt his family because they had been so good to her. She had an argument with him and ran away from home. One of her mother’s friends found her and told ner mother who came after her. She returned to work in the factory working both days and nights.

A worker in the factory, Florence Mucciolo, had an ear operation. Josephine went to visit her and met Anthony. He asked her to go out with him, but she refused because she was engaged. When Florence came back to work she asked Josephine to spend the memorial day weekend at her summer home. When Florence came to pick up Josephine, Anthony was also in the car. They enjoyed a very nice and entertaining weekend at the beach, barbecuing and walking through the woods. They made arrangements for a date, and much to her mother’s delight she broke off the engagement with Johnny. Anthony and Josephine married on February 9, 1941.