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- The Salt Lake Tribune
April 3, 2016.
Beth Lillywhite Osborn passed away on April 1, 2016 at age 96 1/2 from cancer, not old age. She was born in Mesa, Arizona on September 23, 1919 to Horace F. and Georgana Stowell Lillywhite.
After graduating from Phoenix Union High School with honors, she worked for Barry Goldwater as a secretary to earn money to attend BYU in 1939. After one year, she married Max Bateman, which ended in divorce. Later, she married Norman W. Osborn in the Salt Lake Temple.
She had a successful real estate career for forty years, retiring at ninety. She was a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fulfilling many piano and organ assignments. She served a nineteen-month full-time mission at eighty years of age, as secretary to the Mission President of the Independence, Missouri Mission.
She is preceded in death by her parents, brother, three sisters, husband, and daughter, Diane. She is survived by children, Barry (Leslie), Dwight (Christine), Marilyn Hanson (Craig), and Ron (Julie). She was always proud of her nineteen grandchildren, fifty great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.
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