Margaret Osborne

OSBORNE MARGARET SUZANNE GRISSELFuneral services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 19 at Immanuel Lutheran Church for Margaret Suzanne Grissel Osborne, 80, of Roswell, who passed away at home surrounded by family on May 16, 2014 after a courageous 3 year battle with multiple myeloma. The Rev. Daniel Praeuner of Immanuel Lutheran Church will officiate. Interment will be at 1:00 p.m. at South Park Cemetery.
Margaret was born on July 11, 1933, to George Hill Grissel and Susan Grace Arnold Grissel in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She grew up the eldest of 3 daughters on a 180acre dairy farm in Wayne, Michigan, 17 miles west of Detroit. She was a junior champion in the Detroit Metropolitan Spelling Bee three years consecutively. She graduated from Wayne High School in 1951 after which she worked her first jobs at Detroit Edison and Burroughs Corporation. She married Edward A. Osborne on June 3, 1953, at First Congregational Church in Wayne.
In her early married life, Margaret lived with her husband at Fort Hood and Fort Sam Houston, Texas, during Eds military service, and in Wayne, Michigan, while Ed attended pharmacy school at University of Michigan. In 1960, she moved to Roswell, New Mexico, with her husband, where they made their home for 54 years.
Margaret was a homemaker and mother of 3 children. She was the bookkeeper for the family business, Nash Pharmacy, from 19711994. She enjoyed reading, playing the piano, singing in the Immanuel Lutheran Church choir, and meeting friends for tennis, quilting, book club, china painting, and Bible study. Two of her favorite morning activities were completing the daily crossword in the newspaper and taking walks. She loved gardening and enjoyed nature, especially birds. Her favorite flower was the fragrant deep purple petunia. She quilted many beautiful gifts for her family and friends. She was a woman of great faith who was an inspiration to her family and lived her life with joy and a spirit of gratitude.
Margaret is survived by her husband, Ed sisters Grace E. George of Grand Haven, MI, and Georgia G. McKee of Jackson, MI son Ed Osborne II and wife Kim of Lovington, NM daughter Carol Lucas and husband Steve of Austin, TX daughter Susan Jakobsen and husband Tim of McKinney, TX and five grandchildren: Eric Osborne, Amy Osborne, Jessie Lucas, Teo Jakobsen, and Soren Jakobsen and numerous nieces and nephews in Michigan, Alaska, Virginia.
Pallbearers will be Ted Kunkel, Bob Kunkel, Tim Kunkel, Mike George, Varney Brandt and Bob Heider. Honorary pallbearers are Bud Kunkel, Lee George, Keith Palmateer, Lowell Irby, Charles Shannon, Ed Maier, Sam Thoreson and Lowell Davina.
In lieu of flowers, memorials in Margarets name may be made to Immanuel Lutheran Church School or the American Cancer Society.
Her family wishes to thank Edgard Badine, MD, the staff at Kymera and Gentiva Hospice for their expertise, compassion, kindness and support throughout her treatment and care.

Service

Funeral

Immanuel Lutheran Church
1405 Sycamore Ave N
Roswell, NM  88201
Monday, May 19, 2014
10:30 a.m.

Cemetery

South Park Cemetery
3101 S. Main
Roswell, NM  88203

Memorial Contributions

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