Osborn Maynard Delano, Sr. Obituary (1921 - 2013)

WHITEFIELD, MAINE--Osborn Maynard Delano, Sr. passed away on Thursday, July 18, 2013. He is now in heaven with his loving wife, Ona, whom he married on May 6, 1942. Osborn Delano, Sr. was the son of Laura Emma (Pitcher) Delano and Calvin Whitman Delano. Osborn was born April 19, 1921, at their farm house located on a salt water cove on Parson’s Point in Edgecomb, Maine. He attended school in Edgecomb, in a one room school house that he walked to. Osborn was self-employed as a sandworm digger in the earlier years. During World War II he served in the Army- Air Force. He also worked in the woods with horses, cut ice on the Kennebec, and worked in several area sawmills. He also worked as a carpenter, building wooden minesweepers, but he enjoyed his later working years driving truck for Maine Bait Company. Osborn Delano lived in Whitefield, Maine where he purchased a farm after he was discharged from the service. There he and his wife, Ona, raised four children. Osborn was always there for his family and was dearly loved by all of them. He had a strong work ethic, but was well-known for his humor and sharp wit. Osborn loved working around the farm on the fence line with his wife and in their garden. Osborn could also fix about anything that needed repair and had lots of patience. He also enjoyed any family gatherings, but always looked forward to Thanksgiving and apple pie was his favorite pie- many, many were baked for him. Osborn was always liked by anyone that met him and will be greatly missed by his loving family and his friends. Osborn was predeceased by his father, Calvin Whitman Delano; his mother, Laura Emma (Pitcher) Delano; his son, Osborn Delano, Jr.; his brother, Edward “Eddie” Delano; and his sisters, Betty, Frances, and Maxine and her husband Roy Heath. Osborn is survived by his sister, Mildred Dadmun and her husband, Larry, of Newcastle, Maine; and his children, Gloria “Jane” Russell, of Augusta, Maine, David Delano and his wife, Edna, of Belfast, Maine, and Luke Delano and his longtime companion, Mary, of Whitefield, Maine; 9 grandchildren; and 9 great-grandchildren. Visiting hours will be from 5 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 21 at Lawry Brothers Funeral Home-Gray Chapel, 207 Windsor Neck Rd., Windsor, Maine, where a funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Monday, July 22. Burial will follow at Whitefield Cemetery.