Roger Osborn

Roger Cook Osborn Roger Cook Osborn, age 92, died July 15, 2012 in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Osborn was born March 14, 1920 in Crystal City, Texas, where he lived until he graduated from high school. He began his college education at Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, Texas, and continued on at The University of Texas (Austin) to earn a Bachelor of Arts, followed by a Master of Arts, and then a Doctor of Philosophy. He taught in the Mathematics Department until his retirement as Professor Emeritus in 1986, and authored many mathematics textbooks. He served in the US Navy Reserve from 1944-1946, in the Pacific, during World War II. Dr. Osborn and his wife Helen Sue were active in the University United Methodist Church (Austin) until their move to Portland, Oregon in 2009. Dr. Osborn's children and grandchildren will remember him with great affection for his love and kindness, his encouragement and support in their education, for his fondness of a good joke or pun, for his wide-ranging curiosity, and his frequent renditions of hymns and popular songs sung in his beautiful tenor voice. He will be deeply missed. Dr. Osborn was predeceased by his mother and father, William L. and Etta G. Osborn, of Crystal City and Austin, Texas, by his brother George Osborn, and his sister Ruth Curtis. Dr. Osborn is survived by his wife of seventy years Helen Sue (Montgomery), sister Sarah Hood (Little Rock, AR), daughter Myra Barker Hull and her husband Robert Hull (Dallas, Austin and Santa Fe), daughter Susan Diane Summa (Santa Fe), son Roger Cook Osborn Jr. and his wife Diana Kerr Osborn (Portland, OR), grandchildren Christopher E. Barker and his wife Yoko (Tokyo, Japan), Jessica Osborn Becker and her husband Brent Becker (Kenmore, WA), William A. Osborn (Gaithersburg, MD), and great grandchildren Simon Becker and Walter Becker (Kenmore, WA), and numerous nieces and nephews. A memorial service followed by a reception will be held at University United Methodist Church, 2409 Guadalupe, Austin, Texas, at 2pm on October 18. Free parking is reserved for attendees at Platinum Parking, 25th & Guadalupe. For those who want to make donations in Dr. Osborn's memory, the family suggests that memorial gifts may be made to UT Austin, Department of Mathematics, Development Office, P.O. Box 7458, Austin, TX 78713 or to University United Methodist Church, 2409 Guadalupe, Austin, TX 78705.