Obituaries 9 June 2026

John W. Osborn

John W. Osborn, 74, of Lynchburg, passed away peacefully Sunday, June 7, 2026 at Clinton Regional Hospital in Wilmington with his devoted wife by his side. 

He was born Jan. 13, 1952 in Hillsboro, the son of the late Wayne O. and Wanda Lee (Herdman) Osborn.

 image-20260609094029-1

John was a member of the Lynchburg Masonic Lodge 178 F. and A.M., the Scottish Rite Valley of Cincinnati, and the Living Springs Community Church in Mowrystown. He had retired from Cincinnati Milacron after 32 years of service. He attended The Ohio State University and played guitar in his youth. He enjoyed weekly breakfast with his retired friends, dabbling in farming, and camping. He was a loving and devoted husband, father, papaw and brother, and leaves many other family members and friends as well. He was a man of strength, faith, honesty, goodness, kindness, humor, with a constant love of family and friends. He will be greatly missed.  

John is survived by his wife of nearly 52 years, Ruth Ellen (Davis) Osborn, whom he married on Sept. 7, 1974 in Lynchburg. He is also survived by three children, Rachel Elizabeth Osborn of Lynchburg, Zachary John (Courtney) Osborn of Mt. Gilead and Eli Nathanael (Nadine) Osborn of Dodsonville; nine grandchildren, Tyler, Corbin, Ella, Sarah, Laura, Addelynn, Elana, Ruby and Isaac; three sisters, Sharon Kern, Sandy Osborn, Jeannette Osborn, all of Lynchburg; as well as numerous nieces, nephews and many other family members and friends.  

Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. Thursday, June 11 at the Davis-Turner Funeral Home in Lynchburg, with Masonic Services to take place at 7:45 p.m. The funeral service will then be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.  Daniel Jean Claude will officiate. Burial in the Lynchburg Masonic Cemetery will take place at a later date at the convenience of the family.  

To leave an online condolence to the family, please visit www.turnerfuneralhomes.cc.

Comment

Add new comment

This is not for publication.
This is not for publication.
About text formats

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
Article comments are not posted immediately to the Web site. Each submission must be approved by the Web site editor, who may edit content for appropriateness. There may be a delay of 24-48 hours for any submission while the web site editor reviews and approves it. Note: All information on this form is required. Your telephone number and email address is for our use only, and will not be attached to your comment.
CAPTCHA This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions. Image CAPTCHA
Enter the characters shown in the image.