Walter Osborne, Sr.

            Services for Walter Osborne, Sr. will be at noon Saturday at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Episcopal, with the Rev. David Elliott, rector, officiating.  Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery with W. H. Jefferson Funeral Home in charge.  Visitation will be from 5 until 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

            Mr. Osborne died Tuesday, November 23, 1999, at Parkview Regional Medical Center.  He was 96.

            He was a retired employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with 40 years of service and also worked at The Valley Dry Goods and for the City of Vicksburg.  He was also a founding member, manager and drummer for the Red Tops, consider by many to be the premier dance band from Memphis to Baton Rouge.  He was with the band from its founding in 1953 to 1974 when it disbanded.

            He was a member of St. Mary Episcopal Church.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Melinda H. Osborne; his parents, Abe and Fannie Bell Roth Osborne; two brothers, Abe Osborne and Alonzo Osborne; and a sister, Fannie Roberta Osborne.

            He is survived by a son, Walter Osborne, Jr., city clerk for the City of Vicksburg.

Copied from The Vicksburg Post, Thursday, November 25, 1999.