Dorothy Colledge Osborne

Dorothy Colledge Mills Osborne, 79, of 53 Parkview Dr., Candler, died Sunday, November 4, 2007, at St. Joseph Campus Mission Hospitals. Mrs. Osborne was born in Haywood Co. and was a daughter of the late Arthur Wilson and Elizabeth Kuykendall Colledge. She was preceded in death by her first husband, David Mills, who died in August, 1981, and her second husband, Florian W. Osborne, who died in November, 1995. Mrs. Osborne retired as a drug buyer for T.C. Smith & Co. She had been a resident of Pisgah Estates, where she had many, many friends. She was a member of Edgewood Baptist Church but had most recently attended Acton United Methodist Church. Mrs. Osborne is survived by her step-daughter, Deborah Osborne, of Greer, SC; sister, Lillian “Louise” Colledge Beeson and husband Edward L., of New Orleans, LA; one step-granddaughter, Tracy Proctor, of Durham; and three nephews, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ben Beeson, of Woodland, CA, Brad Beeson, of Baltimore, MD, and Matthew Beeson, of Austin, TX. Graveside services will be Thursday at 11:00 a.m. at Acton United Methodist Church Cemetery with the Rev. Ronald E. Sowers officiating. Her family will receive friends 30 minutes prior to the service at the cemetery. Donations may be made to the John F. Keever Hospice Solace Center, P.O. Box 25338, Asheville, NC 28813, the American Red Cross, Mountain Area Chapter, 100 Edgewood Rd., Asheville, NC 28804, or to a church of one’s choice.