Josie attended the Diocesan School for Girls, Grahamstown and studied to be a teacher.
Soon she was commissioning braille transcriptions of more works for her patrons, and sending abroad for donations of money and books.
She arranged favorable shipping deals with carriers of the braille materials, and eventually with the postal service.
During her tenure, the library's holdings expanded to include recorded texts and the machines required for their use.
[3] In 1966, the Josie Wood Wing of the South African Library for the Blind was dedicated in her memory.