Jed Osborn (1958)

OSBORN, COX, HUBBARD, PENICK, WICK, LUNNON, PALMER

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Date: 4/28/2007 at 11:40:42

Winterset Madisonian - June 18, 1958
Winterset, Iowa

JED OSBORN OF WINTERSET DIES

Member of Pioneer Family Here Was 78 Years of Age

Jed Osborn, a Winterset carpenter for many years, died Friday, June 13, at Memorial hospital in Winterset, after a brief illness. He was 78 years of age.

Mr. Osborn was a member of a pioneer family in the Peru community, where he was born Nov. 27, 1879, a son of James and Permilia Osborn. He was one of a family of 11 children.

He was married in December of 1906 to Viola Cox. They were parents of two daughters, the present Mrs. Mildred Hubbard of Booneville and Mrs. Lorraine Penick of Monte Vista, Colo. The wife and mother died in 1918.

On Sept. 24, 1930, he was married to Violet Wick. They had made their home in Winterset since that time.

Mr. Osborn engaged in farming from 1906 to 1918 near Peru. Since then, he had worked as a mechanic and carpenter.

Surviving are his wife; the two daughters; an adopted daughter, Betty Lunnon of Des Moines; eight grandchildren; a great grandson; three brothers, Lawrence and Earl Osborn of Winterset and Darwin Osborn of Franklin, Minn.; and a sister, Mrs. Ethel Palmer of Osceola.

Funeral services were held Sunday from the Richards Funeral home, conducted by the Rev. George DeF. Fisher, pastor of the Winterset Presbyterian church. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.