[ JOSEPHINE “JOSIE” WILLIAMS, SHE/HER, CIS WOMAN, CLARK BACKO ] is a THIRTY year old RECORDS CLERK from PROSPER, WV. They are COMPASSIONATE and HARD WORKING but also WITHDRAWN and TENSE.
BASICS
FULL NAME: josephine williams
NICKNAME(S): josie, jo, joey (she’s a big fan of nicknames since her full name is a mouthful)
BIRTHDAY: january 6th, 1967
ZODIAC: capricorn sun, scorpio moon, sagittarius rising
AGE: 30 years old
HOMETOWN: prosper, wv
BIRTHPLACE: hazzard, wv
RELIGION: raised christian but has drifted from the church in the past few years
FAMILY
MOTHER: nancy johnson
FATHER: thomas “tom” johnson (deceased)
SIBLING(S): 1 older brother, thomas “tommy” johnson jr
HUSBAND: john williams II (deceased) CHILDREN: john “johnny” williams III (5 years old)
PET(S): n/a
APPEARANCE:
HEIGHT: 5′8″
EYE COLOR: brown
HAIR COLOR: black
HAIR STYLE: josie’s hair is done into long braids, typically she’ll wear them down but when she’s running around chasing her son all day, they can be found tied up into a bun or a pony tail
PEIRCINGS: she has her lobes pierced but only puts earrings in when she’s going to a fancy event
MAKEUP: she almost never wears make up, never having time to put it on in the morning
TATTOOS: she as a small heart on her ribs with her anniversary date inside. she and john got matching tattoos before he was deployed as a way to keep each other close while he was away
STYLE:
josie is not a fashion person. she doesn’t keep up with trends and most of her clothes are from when she was in her early twenties before she had her son. she doesn’t really see the need to get herself new clothes when she can get things for her son instead
at work, she dresses very business casual; blouses, dress pants, sometimes skirts and dresses. pant suits for more serious meetings
when she’s not at work, she can be found in jeans or shorts and old t-shirts and almost always paired with one of her many flannels.
in the colder months, she can be found sporting one of her husbands jackets
she still wears their wedding band
FAMILY:
josie’s dad passed away when she was a teenager of a heart attack, leaving her mom to take care of her and her brother alone. he was the picture perfect father to his two kids. a good christian man who worked hard in the mines around town. but with poor diet and over working, he passed away suddenly.
after he passed, tommy stepped up to help out with bills and money, taking a job in the mines as well. while the money helped them, it did make josie and their mom worry that he was signing up for the same fate as his father. tommy has since left the mines, he got married and moved away from lockhorn in his early 20s
josie’s mom still lives in hazzard but in recent years, she has started to develop early onset dementia. she used to be a teacher at the local school but has since retired when her memory started to go. josie visits her from time to time, but she has trouble seeing her when she has bad episodes. she feels guilty for not seeing her more often but it’s hard
josie and john were high school sweethearts. she was a cheerleader, he was a football player. she was from hazzard, he was from prosper. classic love story. they were perfect for each other. she fully believes that he was her soulmate. they got married at 19 after three years of dating.
john enlisted in the army and was deployed in the gulf war. the time apart was hard, but it made their time together much more meaning full. she got pregnant while he was on leave between deployments and they had their son when they were 25. john was able to be there for his birth and the first few months, but he was deployed again and was killed in combat. this obviously broke josie but the hardest part of it all is when her mom can’t remember that john is dead and asks where he is
johnny, their son, is now five years old and josie would do anything for him
she’s still close to john’s family and they help her out with taking care of johnny which she is incredible grateful for
FRIENDS:
josie keeps to herself nowadays. she’s too busy to keep up close friendships. she has a few people she talks to on a regular basis, but it’s hard when she’s a working single mom
she’s close to her coworkers but mostly out of convenience because they spend all day together
LIVING SITUATION:
josie was raised in hazzard with her parents and brother. they had a modest house which her mom still lives in
after marrying john, they got a house in prosper. the change took some getting used to for josie, but now she was grateful, wanting to give the best for their son
its a newer two bedroom ranch with a nice fenced yard for johnny to play in. there are things in the house that josie can’t bring to change since losing her husband like their bedroom. there’s always toys all over the place thanks to johnny but she tries her best to keep things in order
WORK:
josie is a records clerk for the sherif’s office. she used to have dreams of being a detective, but since losing her husband, she didn’t want something to happen to her while on the job so she settled on a desk job at the station
SCHOOL
despite how much josie kept to herself, she was fairly popular in school. perks of being a cheerleader and dating a football player
she did well in school, getting straight a’s in all of her classes but never liked to rub it in and be known as a know it all
ASPIRATIONS:
like i said in work, josie’s dream used to be to be a detective. there’s something about putting clues together to solve a case. it was like a puzzle for her. but after losing john, she stopped working toward that goal and focused on her son
now her dream is to give johnny the best life possible
RIVALRY:
growing up, she and her brother were very into the rivalry, always causing trouble and pranking the prosper kids. but as she got older and understood the reason for the rivalry, she stopped. plus, dating her future husband, a prosper kid, josie realized how silly the whole thing was. having lived in both towns, she only has a slight preference to hazzard because that was where she was raised. she wants to raise her son to respect both town and break the cycle of classism between them.













