It appears that this may be one of Josephine's nieces. Blanche Garner was the daughter of Mercer William Garner. She married a Van Alstyne (my spouse's family name.) I have just began to research the Van Alstyne Family so I don't have much. A very nice person in the Colorado Co. area sent me the obituary below.


VanAlstyne, Blanche
Mrs. VanAlstyne, 70, 42-Year Resident Of Weimar, Buried
Funeral services for Mrs. Blanche Garner VanAlstyne, 70, who had lived here the past forty-two years, were held Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 10, from Hubbard Funeral Home, Rev. W. E. Brown of the First Baptist Church officiating. Interment was in City Cemetery.
Mrs. VanAlstyne succumbed at her home here at about 2:30 o’clock Monday morning, a few days after being brought home from the Columbus Hospital. She had been in ill health for several years.
Born January 19, 1878, in Lavaca County, she was the daughter of William and Agnes Garner. While she was very young the family moved to Columbus, where she spent her girlhood. On July 11, 1906, she was married at Weimar to John Heywood VanAlstyne, who preceded her in death in 1933. She was a faithful member of the First Baptist Church here.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Charles Allen of Weimar and Mrs. T. E. Hightower of Staples, Texas; two sons, Wm. Garner Van Alstyne of Willis, Texas and John Heywood Van Alstyne of Houston; a sister, Miss Willie Garner of Columbus; and three grandchildren.
Pallbearers at the funeral were Walter Williams, Francis Boettcher, Fritz Tell, en Holt, Grady Little, and Henry Herbert Seifert.
Weimar Mercury, February 13, 1948