St. Clair County Obits

HARRY A. OSBORN

Clinton Daily Democrat
30 July 2002
Harry A. Osborn, 87, Lowry City, died Saturday, July 27, 2002, at his brother-in-law's home in Clinton. He was born April 5, 1915, in the Short community, the only son of Jasper and Josie Osborn. He attended Short School through the eighth grade. He was married to Ila Wright March 10, 1935. They farmed before moving to Kansas City where he worked for Firestone Tire and Rubber and North American Aviation. They returned to the farm where they farmed and milked cows before going into the restaurant business in 1970, only to go back in the restaurant business in 1985, opening the Commercial Cafe, Osceola. They retired a second time in 1989. His parents, an infant daughter, an infant granddaughter and four sisters, Margaret Lillard, Jessie Ballard, Dorothy Wright and Helen Wright, preceded him in death. He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Ila; his children, David Osborn and his wife Marjory, Lowry City, Marjorie Bunch and her husband Allen, Pleasant Hill, and Edna Jo Hinkle and her husband Randy, Lowry City; seven grandsons and one granddaughter, 16 great-grandchildren; one sister, Ethel Earhart, Pleasant Hill; one brother-in-law, Leo Wright, Lathrop; many nieces and nephews and a host of friends. Funeral services were Tuesday, July 30, at 10 a.m. at the Sheldon-Goodrich Funeral Home of Osceola. Burial was in the Lowry City Cemetery.