Gentry county Missouri, Obituaries:  James Merlin Osborn

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Submitted by: <dhr1953@hotmail.com>  Don Raymond

The Stanberry Headlight, Gentry County, Missouri, Thursday, July 5, 1962, front page:
     James Osborn Killed in Crash Near St. Joseph:  Funeral Services Were Held
     Here Tuesday Afternoon for 24-Year-Old Native of Stanberry: Funeral
     services were held here Tuesday afternoon in the Stanberry Methodist church
     for a former resident, James Merlin Osborn, 24, of Faucett, Mo., who met
     death in a one-car accident about 6:10 a.m. Sunday 3 miles south of St.
     Joseph on Interstate 29.

     The rites were conducted by the Rev. Lewis Clark, the Rev. Richard M.
     Horton, Pastor of the local Methodist church, and the Raymond Sager
     American Legion post of Stanberry.  Burial was in the High Ridge cemetery
     under the direction of the Johnson Funeral Home.

     The young many, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Osborn of Stanberry, was killed
     as he was returning to his home in Faucett from his work at the Continental
     Can Co. in St. Joseph.

     The state patrol reported that Osborn's south-bound car ran off the right
     side of the highway and struck a bridge pier where Route O crosses the
     interstate highway No. 29.  He was thrown from the demolished car, suffered
     multiple broken bones and head injuries and died at the scene of the
     accident, according to the officers who said Osborn apparently went to
     sleep.

     Survivors in addition to his parents include his wife, Mrs. Laveda Ann
     Osborn, of the home, his 7-month-old son, Terry, of the home and two
     brother, Charles Osborn, Stanberry, and Darrell (Mickey) Osborn, Agency,
     Mo.

     Young Osborn was born Dec. 27, 1937, in Stanberry.  He was graduated from
     the Stanberry R-II high school in May, 1955, and entered the army the
     following September.  A paratrooper, he was stationed at Ft. Belvoir, Va.,
     Ft. Bragg, N.C. and in Greenland for six months.  He was discharged from
     the service in April, 1960, after serving almost five years.

     He and the former Miss Laveda Ann McCrary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert
     McCrary, were united in marriage on May 27, 1961, at Jamesport, Mo.  They
     made their home in Stanberry until moving to Faucett about three months
     ago.  He had been employed at the Dannen Mills in St. Joseph before going
     to work for the Continental Can Co.