Elizabeth Ostergren

OSTERGREN, Elizabeth "Corrine," 89, of Ashland, went to be with the Lord on October 26, 2008. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Rev. George A. Ostergren. She is survived by two children, Franz Blair Ostergren and wife, Joyce, and Ann Marie Samuel and husband, Douglas. Mrs. Ostergren also raised five foster children, Cecil, Billy, Wayne, Louise, and Jimmy. She is also survived by four grandchildren, one of whom is a devoted grandson, Gregory A. Dean and wife, Chelly, Christopher G. Ostergren, Franz Blair Ostergren Jr. and Ann Page Tate; and several great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Mrs. Ostergren was a charter member of Holy Cross Lutheran Church and an associate member of Dunn's Chapel United Methodist Church. The family will receive friends from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at the Nelsen Funeral Home's Reid Chapel, 412 S. Washington Hwy., Ashland, where a funeral service will be held 1 p.m. Thursday, October 30. Interment will follow in Signal Hill Memorial Park, Hanover. In lieu of flowers, please make memorial donations to Dunn's Chapel United Methodist Church or to the Ashland Volunteer Rescue Squad.


This obituary was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.