Austin K. Osborne

ST. PAULS - Austin Kendell Osborne, 18, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, at Southeastern Regional Health in Lumberton. Austin was a senior at St. Pauls High SChool. He was active in the school band and played basketball. He also enjoyed singing and dancing. He was employed by the Piggly Wiggly in St. Pauls. He is survived by his mother, Susan Williams and husband, DeWann; grandmother and grandfather, "Mama" Dorla and "PaPa" Kenneth Osborne; brothers, Lamonte Melvin, Montreal Melvin and Ketrone Blanks; sister, Lysheika Kinard; aunts, Kimberly Osborne and Slyvester McNair; uncles, Kenneth Osborne Jr. and wife, Angela, and Demont Sinclair; very special cousin, Elizabeth Osborne; cousins, Ethan Osborne, Katillia West, Lukus Osborne and Derihanna McNair; and a host of friends. His funeral service will be held on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013, at 2 p.m. in Westview Pentecostal Holiness Church in St. Pauls with Pastors Ricky Taylor and Ron Murdock officiating. Burial will follow in Smith family cemetery. A visitation for family and friends will be held today, Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Saint Pauls Funeral Home in St. Pauls and at all other times and the home of Dorla and Kenny Osborne. There will also be a time for his friends and classmates to say goodbye and honor their classmate. Family and services entrusted to Saint Pauls Funeral Home of St. Pauls.