DON OSBORNE

Funeral for Don Edward Osborne of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Lynwood Baptist Church. The Revs. Gary Belcher and George Brewer will officiate. Burial will be in Cape County Memorial Park.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 4-8 p.m. today.

Osborne, 67, died Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2000, at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff, Mo.

He was born Jan. 20, 1933, in Tonti Township, Ill., son of Homer and Alice Warren Osborne. He and Barbara Hodge were married Dec. 1, 1954, in Mt. Vernon, Ill.

Osborne had worked at Missourian Litho as a salesman for A.B. Dick Products. In 1970 he founded Osborne Office Equipment and was currently operating the business.

He was a member and deacon at Lynwood Baptist Church and was involved in several ministries at the church. He served on the board of directors of VIP Industries.

Osborne received the Award of Merit from the Governor's Council on Disability in 1967, and the St. Francis of Assisi Award from St. Francis Medical Center in 1998.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving aboard submarines.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Don A. Osborne of Jackson, Mo., Jeff S. Osborne of Cape Girardeau; two daughters, Candice Brazil of Cape Girardeau, Crystal Helm of Sikeston, Mo.; two brothers, Warren Osborne of Alma, Ill., Jim Osborne of Springvale, Fla.; and four grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a son, his parents, two brothers, and two sisters.