James Osborne

OSBORNE, HOWARD, WENDLAND

Posted By: Mary Ellen (email)
Date: 9/19/2009 at 08:39:00

Ottumwa Courier Sep 19, 2009

James Osborne
KEOSAUQUA — James Deleon Osborne, 78, of Keosauqua, died at 2:10 p.m. Sept. 17, 2009, of cancer in the Van Buren Good Samaritan Center Hospice, Keosauqua.He was born Nov. 7, 1930, in Moulton, the only child of William C. and Olaf Howard Osborne. He married Vera Lee Wendland on Sept. 5, 1954, in Moulton.He graduated from Moulton-Udell High School in 1948 and attended Indian Hills College, Centerville, and Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant. Osborne Oil Co. was founded in Moulton in 1936 by his father and he assumed operation of the company in 1957. He and Vera purchased the Standard Oil bulk plants in Bloomfield and Keosauqua in 1974 and the service station in Keosauqua in 1984, which continues under the ownership of the Osborne family. Jim was active in the business until stricken with cancer in June of 2009. He was a member of the Keosauqua United Methodist Church and Keosauqua Lions Club and had been a Mason and Odd Fellow in Moulton.Survivors include his wife, Vera; a daughter, Cheryl (Kerry) Nicholson of Ankeny; a son, Darrel (Pat) Osborne of Keosauqua; and five grandchildren, Krystal, Kyle, Kelly and Kathryn Osborne and Steven Nicholson. He was preceded in death by his parents and an aunt, Grayce Osborne.Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Monday at Pedrick Funeral Home, Keosauqua; the Revs. Elsa Lawry and ellis andrews officiating. Burial will be in Fellows Cemetery, Keosauqua.Visitation will be open from 1-5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home with the family present from 3-5 p.m. Sunday afternoon.Memorials to the Hospice Department at Van Buren Good Samaritan Center may be left at the funeral home or mailed to the family at P.O. Box 533, Keosauqua, Iowa.