Re: Gratitude
GRAGERT, ATHENS, PAULSEN, FAUST, OSBORNE, GUNDERSON, MARTIN, SCHRODER, TABER, OSBORN, CHRISTENSEN, DOMINICK, MCCREE, JOHNSON, DERR, BISHOP, BAKER, GILDERSLEEVE, JACKSON, OEHLERT
Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email) In Response To: Gratitude (John Gragert)
Date: 8/21/2011 at 16:27:02
Here are obituaries for Ruth (Gragert) Osborn's husband, Paul and for her sister, Mary Louise (Gragert) Christensen:
Paul Eugene Osborn, 90, died Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007, surrounded by his wife and two daughters. He is loved by many. Paul was born July 23, 1917, to Clement Able Osborn and Eunice Derr Osborn in Danbury, Iowa. He and his wife, Ruth Gragert Osborn, were married at the Little Brown Church in the Vale at Nashua, Iowa. Together they enjoyed 68 years of marriage, love and friendship. Their life together was full of rich experiences and challenges. Paul was in the Army Air Forces and flew rescue missions out of Burma during World War II. Paul's career with the United Nations as a fisheries biologist and culturist took them around the world where Paul set up fish hatcheries in underdeveloped countries. In earlier years he worked with private hatcheries in the United States raising fish, developing large automated feeders and improving ways of transporting fish to market or store. His specialty in fish disease made him a worldwide expert. He received his graduate degree in fisheries and his undergraduate degree in engineering at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
Paul was preceded in death by his parents, brother and sister. He is survived by his wife, Ruth; his daughters, Prudence and Eugenia; son, Philip; four grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
A celebration of Paul's life will be held at the Union Congregational Church in Hackensack, Minn., at 3 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15. A time of greeting and visiting will be held in the fellowship room following the funeral celebration. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that gifts go to the church music program. Arrangements are with Brenny Funeral Chapel in Baxter.
October 16, 2007
Brainerd Dispatch - Brainerd, Minnesota****************
Mary Louise (Gragert) Christensen, 77, of Ventura, died Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005, at Mercy Medical Center North Iowa, Mason City. Funeral Services were held Friday, Jan. 7, at Zion Lutheran Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Dean Hess officiating. Interment was at Clear Lake Cemetery. Family suggests memorials to the Mary Louise Christensen memorial fund. Mary was born on Sept. 8, 1927 in Steamboat Rock, Iowa to Frank ElRoy and Nettie May (Bishop) Gragert. Mary grew up around Dows, Iowa and lived much of her life on Iowa farms. She worked for many years selling school supplies throughout Iowa. She then worked at Carlton Stewart Music Company in Mason City selling pianos, organs and music supplies. She worked at Mason City KFC and was known as the buffet hostess. She was honored as employee of the year in 1996 by the Iowa Restaurant Association. She loved gardening and canning, and sharing the fruits of her labor for her own enjoyment and that of her family. Mary was known for putting smiles on her customer's faces and everyone loved Mary for her ever-present positive outlook, in spite of life's adversities. She was baptized in the Lutheran Church near Ankeny. Mary was a member of Zion Lutheran Church, Clear Lake.
Mary is survived by her husband of 39 years, Max Christensen, of Ventura; her two children, Ron Gunderson and his wife, Beth, of Eagle River, Alaska, and Shirley Baker and her husband, Alan, of Ventura. She was grandmother to six grandchildren, Rhonda Gildersleeve and her husband, Drew, Allan Gunderson and his fiancée, Shannon, Wendy Jackson, Murry Gunderson, Angie Oehlert and Ashley Baker. She also had six great-grandchildren, Corey Martin, Shay Martin, Alexis Gildersleeve, Cameron Gunderson, Hunter Jackson and Carson Jackson. Mary has one living sister, Ruth Osborn and her husband, Paul, of Baxter, Minn. and many nieces and nephews. She will be missed by her family, friends and the many whose lives she deeply touched. Mary was preceded in death by her parents; three sisters, Vera, Amy and Charlotte and one brother, Roy. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, was in charge of arrangements.
Clear Lake Mirror Reporter - Iowa
January 12, 2005
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