2011 Press Releases
Passing of Mrs. Harry V. Osborne, Jr. Trustee Emeritus
April 3, 2011
Obituary - Mrs. Elsa F. Osborne
Elsa Osborne, 98, peacefully passed away on April 3, 2011, at Harrogate Retirement Community in Lakewood, N.J. We will celebrate Elsa's life and all that she meant to us on Saturday, April 16, 2011, at 11:30 a.m. at the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church in Plainfield, N.J. For further information or to post a tribute please visit www.deliafuneralhome.com Elsa was a loving wife, mother and grandmother, and will be greatly missed by all. Elsa was born in 1912 in Orange, N.J., to Herman and Nina Focke. She graduated from Orange High School and spent two years at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. Married in 1941 to Harry Vivian Osborne Jr., Elsa moved to Cranford, N.J., where they raised their two children. Her interests included family and volunteer work devoting her time and energy to many non-profit interests such as Muhlenberg Hospital Twig, Cranford League, Cranford Garden Club president, Visiting Nurse Association, Junior League of Elizabeth, Wardlaw Mother's Association president, Wednesday Morning Club, Contact We Care, Bonnie Brae Auxiliary, Bonnie Brae Board of Trustees, and was a Brae Board Trustee Emeritus. Most recently she was an active member of the Harrogate community including founding the Harrogate General Store. She was well-traveled, interested in sports, politics and avid reader and, most of all, interested in the people she met, always concerned for others. She had a wonderful spirit. She touched so many lives. Her husband of 43 years, Judge Harry V. Osborne Jr., died in 1985. Mrs. Osborne is survived by her daughter, Susan Orsoni of Paris, France; her son, Harry T. (Ted) and his spouse, Robin, of Plainfield, N.J., and her two grandchildren, Lauren and Harry T. Jr. Memorial gifts may be made, in lieu of flowers, to Bonnie Brae Residential Treatment Center, Liberty Corner, N.J.
Published in Star-Ledger on April 5, 2011