In Loving Memory

DuWayne Lionel Osborne

DuWayne Lionel Osborne was born Dec. 7, 1934, in Tumwater, Washington, and passed away peacefully at age 90 on Nov. 21, 2025, in North Bend, Oregon, from congestive heart failure. He was the second of seven children born to Virginia and Walter Osborne. After their divorce, Virginia remarried and had four more children. When DuWayne was 6, his mother began a new family and left him and his six siblings in the care of their grandmother in Adna, Washington. The youngest soon passed at two months old. Living on a farm during WWII with no indoor plumbing or electricity, the children received nurturing and learned important life lessons. DuWayne often shared stories of his grandmother’s no-nonsense approach. After her passing, the original six children rejoined their mother, stepfather, and four half siblings.

DuWayne left school after seventh grade to work and help support the family, even traveling through Oregon and Washington with the carnival as a teenager. He married Annice L. Applegate on March 25, 1955, a marriage that lasted 62 years until her passing in 2017. Shortly after their wedding, he enlisted in the Army, serving from 1955 to 1958 as a trained tank mechanic, spending most of his service in France. Ann spent several months with him there before returning to Oregon to give birth to their daughter Valarie in 1957. Son Jim followed 19 months later.

After his discharge, the family settled in Hillsboro, where DuWayne worked various jobs before moving to Coos Bay in 1962. He worked for Weyerhaeuser as a choker setter, later completing the millwright apprenticeship and earning his journeyman card. He retired from Weyco’s CBX mill in 2000.

DuWayne loved family time—camping, fishing, hunting, gardening, building, and creating his own tools and toys. He adored children. He was preceded in death by Ann and all ten siblings. He is survived by daughter Valarie (Cleve) Pickett, son Jimmy (Kristi) Osborne, two grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandson. Services will be held after the first of the year.