Flora Bernice Culpepper Osbon Flowers

Flora Bernice Culpepper Osbon
Flowers
June 25, 1918-
March 5, 2014
Columbus, GA- Flora Bernice Culpepper Osbon Flowers, 95, Columbus, GA died Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at St. Francis Hospital.
Funeral Services will be held 11:00 AM, Monday, March 10, 2014 at McMullen Funeral Home Chapel, 3874 Gentian Blvd. Columbus, GA 31907 with Reverend Edward Kvietkus, JR. officiating. A private interement will be held in Parkhill Cemetery. The family will receive friends following the service at the funeral home.
Bernice was born June 25, 1918 in Henry County, Alabama to the late Nancy Clara Hasty "Mama" Culpepper and Fuirney Edward Culpepper. She became a homemaker and farmer's wife in 1935 after meeting and marrying the love of her life, "Dub" Osbon. Together, Bernice and "Dub" farmed until they moved to Columbus in 1951 with their first four children. After arriving in Columbus, Bernice was a salesperson and cashier at Witt Department Store, S.H. Kress Company, and the Piggly Wiggly. She also found the time to be very active in the PTA in the late 1950's and early 1960's, serving as President at Rose Hill Elementary School. She found another passion in Rose Hill Baptist Church where she was a member for over fifty years. Bernice had a strong work ethic and was from a generation who endured the Great Depression. Retirement was not a word in her vocabulary. In her seventies and eighties she "sat with old people" (her words) to supplement her rainy day fund.
Her family was the center of her universe. She was at her happiest when she cooked or baked for her family. Every year she served Thanksgiving dinner and a dinner on Christmas Eve for fifty people. You could not visit her house without being offered a meal. Your birthday meant you could have one of her cakes (the flavor of your choice, of course). You knew you were somebody if she arrived to visit you with a cake box and it contained HER pound cake. She was country cooking before there was television, much less cooking shows.
Other than her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Worthy Edward "Dub" Osbon; her second husband, Charles Flowers; her siblings, Wilma Estelle Badder, Susie Elizabeth Livingston, Odie Culpepper, Mary Lynn Lewis, Edna Critchley, Edward Feirnie Culpepper, Calvin Coolidge Culpepper, Juanita Stokes, Grady Floyd Culpepper, William C. Culpepper; a daughter-in-law, Anna Ruth Osbon; a grandson, Paul Bruce Hedden, II; and two granddaughters, Debra Sherman and Cathy Youngblood.
Survivors include three sons, Bobby Ray Osbon, Sr., Clint Osbon, Sr. (Carolyn), Earl W. Osbon, Sr. (Joyce); two daughters, Gail Hedden Warren (L.J.) and Cynthia Ann Osbon; 12 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren, 12 great-great grandchildren; a very special niece, Pauline Mansell; plus many other nieces and nephews.
The family wants to thank Cindy for the care she provided for her mother in her later years which allowed her to remain in her home. The efforts by the staff at St. Francis Hospital are greatly appreciated especially Caroline, Karen, Zachary, Nancy, and Bobby in the Emergency Room. Your dedication, passion, smiles, kind words, professionalism, determination, and honesty will not be forgotten.
Flowers will be accepted but those who wish may make donations to the Rose Hill Baptist Church, 2100 Hamilton Road, Columbus, GA 31904.
Those who wish may sign the online guest registry at www.mcmullenfuneralhome.com