{"id":27742,"date":"2025-07-25T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=27742"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:30:21","slug":"dixie-osborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/dixie-osborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Dixie Osborn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dixie L. Osborn, 85, of Ossian, passed away Wednesday evening, July 23, 2025, at her residence.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dixie was born in Wells County on Mar. 5, 1940, to William \u201cHerbert\u201d Brickley Sr. and Gladys (Rohrabaugh) Brickley.  She married Hanford \u201cHank\u201d H. Osborn in Fort Wayne on July 2, 1960.  He preceded her in death on June 26, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dixie attended Rockcreek High School in Wells County and was a lifelong homemaker.  She will be remembered as a loving wife and mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Survivors include three sons, Jeff (Linda) Osborn of Bluffton, Brian Osborn of Bluffton, and Chad (Jennifer) Osborn of Ossian; a daughter, Penny Gibson of Ossian; four grandchildren, Brandon Freeman, Quinn Gibson, Ethan Osborn (fianc\u00e9e Sydney Myers), and Jenna Osborn; along with two sisters, Frieda Key of Ossian and Dorothy (Enos) Gore of Keystone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to her husband and parents, Dixie was preceded in death by a son-in-law, Steven Gibson; nine brothers, George, Bryce, Richard, Warren, Chester, Clarence \u201cCoon\u201d, Dean, Jerry, and Bill Brickley; and four sisters, Alice Jacobs, Madge \u201cJoan\u201d Knight, Janet Marshall, Beatrice Huffman, and Elizabeth Heron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Per Dixie\u2019s wishes, there are no public services planned at this time.  Burial will be held at Horeb Cemetery in Wells County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goodwin \u2013 Harnish Funeral Home & Cremation Services has been entrusted with the arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dixie L. Osborn, 85, of Ossian, passed away Wednesday evening, July 23, 2025, at her residence.   Dixie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-27742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-obit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27744,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27742\/revisions\/27744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}