Willard Osborne

Willard Osborne, 69, of Laurel Hill, passed away on Thursday, April 8, 2010 at the Pineville Community Hospital. He was born in Pineville on April 6, 1941, a son of the late Leonard and Rutha Jane Jackson Osborne. He was a believer in the Primitive Baptist faith and had been a carpenter and outside miner. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by grandsons, Jereme Neal and Jamie Tyler Partin; brother, Henry Osborne and sister, Gladys Wilder and brother-in-law, Otis Brock. Survivors include his wife, Dianne Partin Osborne, daughters, Jamie Neal and Lisa Osborne; grandchildren, Amanda Michelle Neal, Laura Kathryn Osborne and Sierra Nicole, great-grandson, Hagen Neal; sisters, Opal Brock and Helen Seigler and her husband, Arthur and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.