Carl & Mary Family, Page3

CARL EDWIN and MARY LAWRENCE (BURNETT) OSBORNE

by Tom Osborne (tlosborne@aol.com)

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After Daddy worked at the Texaco station, he took a job with Sinclair Oil, then went to work for his father at the Osborne Lumber Company, 8th and Clay St, in Paducah. After Pearl Harbor, he had three sons and either had to work at the Kentucky Ordnance Works (KOW) or risk being drafted. So he worked at the KOW until after the war, probably about 1945, when he returned to the Osborne Lumber Company and worked until he retired. This picture was probably taken in 1949, looking across the main street in Lone Oak (US Highway 45) at the Lone Oak Baptist Church where the Osborne clan were all members. As kids, we loved to ride in the lumber company trucks and sometimes got to go on deliveries. They had this small truck and a big one with extra low range gears. Once during the war, there was a scrap metal drive and Daddy used the big truck with several volunteers to go out into the fields and collect scrap metal.

This is a portrait of the four sons taken in 1949. Tom is on the left, Jim in the middle in the back, David in the front, and Bobby on the right. David would be about one year old.

In 1951 and 1952 Daddy built a new house 3 miles out of Lone Oak on the Clinton Road. The new property had 24.6 acres, and soon we had a barn, pond, and cows. The house was much bigger with three bedrooms for the four boys. But the bathroom still didn't have a shower; for a shower we still had to go to the basement.

This is Bobby standing in front of the new house, probably 1953 or 1954 because the grass is still new. Ray Englerts house is in the background. Mother and Daddy always had a garden and canned and froze vegetables. The garden was about an acre and was in the field between us and the Englerts where the telephone pole is.

This photograph was taken in Mama and Grandaddy Osborne's living room at same time as the next picture, Christmas 1956. Bob and I were home from the army for Christmas.

This picture, taken Christmas 1956, has lots of memories too. We sometimes went over to Mama and Grandaddys for Sunday dinner and Mama often made an angel food cake; it was a special treat. Grandaddy and Mama always sat in these same places at the table. This is probably the last time Bobby and I had dinner with them like this because when we got out of the army we went off to school, jobs, and raising our own families.

This picture is of Mother and Daddy in the living room of house on Clinton road, January 1965. Daddys favorite chair, where he always sat in the evenings, is on the right.

This is Daddy relaxing in his favorite chair in August 1966. Note the glass in the window; probably iced tea.

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After Daddy worked at the Texaco station, he took a job with Sinclair Oil, then went to work for his father at the Osborne Lumber Company, 8th and Clay St, in Paducah. After Pearl Harbor, he had three sons and either had to work at the Kentucky Ordnance Works (KOW) or risk being drafted. So he worked at the KOW until after the war, probably about 1945, when he returned to the Osborne Lumber Company and worked until he retired. This picture was probably taken in 1949, looking across the main street in Lone Oak (US Highway 45) at the Lone Oak Baptist Church where the Osborne clan were all members. As kids, we loved to ride in the lumber company trucks and sometimes got to go on deliveries. They had this small truck and a big one with extra low range gears. Once during the war, there was a scrap metal drive and Daddy used the big truck with several volunteers to go out into the fields and collect scrap metal.
This is a portrait of the four sons taken in 1949. Tom is on the left, Jim in the middle in the back, David in the front, and Bobby on the right. David would be about one year old.
In 1951 and 1952 Daddy built a new house 3 miles out of Lone Oak on the Clinton Road. The new property had 24.6 acres, and soon we had a barn, pond, and cows. The house was much bigger with three bedrooms for the four boys. But the bathroom still didn't have a shower; for a shower we still had to go to the basement. This is Bobby standing in front of the new house, probably 1953 or 1954 because the grass is still new. Ray Englerts house is in the background. Mother and Daddy always had a garden and canned and froze vegetables. The garden was about an acre and was in the field between us and the Englerts where the telephone pole is.
This photograph was taken in Mama and Grandaddy Osborne's living room at same time as the next picture, Christmas 1956. Bob and I were home from the army for Christmas.
This picture, taken Christmas 1956, has lots of memories too. We sometimes went over to Mama and Grandaddys for Sunday dinner and Mama often made an angel food cake; it was a special treat. Grandaddy and Mama always sat in these same places at the table. This is probably the last time Bobby and I had dinner with them like this because when we got out of the army we went off to school, jobs, and raising our own families.
This picture is of Mother and Daddy in the living room of house on Clinton road, January 1965. Daddys favorite chair, where he always sat in the evenings, is on the right.
This is Daddy relaxing in his favorite chair in August 1966. Note the glass in the window; probably iced tea.