George Washington Osborn, Jr.

Monday, March 20, 2023

George Washington Osborn, Jr., age 88, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Saturday, March 18, 2023, at the Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Mo. George was born March 20, 1934, to George W. Osborn and Stella Cauthon Osborn in Bates County, Mo. He was the sixth of seven children. George grew up on the farm and started farming when he was 14 years old and proudly continued until he was 80. He married the love of his life, Joanne Greer, on Nov. 17, 1954. He started his married life working for a ranch in Adrian, Mo. In November 1959, they moved to Gardner, Kan., where he rented his own farm across the road from his widowed aunt so that he could take care of her. In those early years, he did what he could to take care of his family including digging graves. He did so well with the farming and soil conservation that he won several farming awards in Johnson, Miami, and Linn counties. In 1967, he bought his own farm outside of Drexel, Mo., (on the Kansas side) and moved his family there and started a large hog operation along with the farming. In 1988, he and Joanne moved further south to the Blue Mound, Kan., area where he enjoyed farming row crops and not worrying about pigs and cattle. George was a member of the St. John’s United Methodist Church in Fort Scott. He enjoyed traveling with his wife, Joanne when the farming schedule allowed.

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