Millard E. Osborne, 90, died June 22, 2023, with his wife, Joyce Nyce Osborne, holding his hand. Millard was the youngest of 10 children, born Aug. 30, 1932, to Charles Edmond Osborne and Pearl Frey Osborne. He was the last surviving member of his immediate family.

Millard grew up during the Depression of the 1930s, and the war years of the 1940s in Howard-Miami counties of Indiana. He was baptized in Howard-Miami Mennonite Church and attended Goshen College. In 1954, he married Joyce in Doylestown, Pa. They married at the home of the bride to allow a quartet of college friends to sing. Together they served in Voluntary Service at Mathis, Texas. In 1959 they moved to Lebanon, Ore., where Millard began his pastoral ministry. He also pastored in London, Ont., Fisher, Ill., and Charlottesville, Va. In addition, he served as the conference minister for South Central Mennonite Conference. He held a B.A. from Goshen College, a Th.B. from Goshen Biblical Seminary and an M.Div. from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary.

He and Joyce retired in Harrisonburg, Va., and became members at Community Mennonite Church. In 2017, they moved to Kelseyville, Calif., to live with their daughter, Marylin, and family, eventually moving to Orchard Park Senior Living in Clearlake, Calif. Joyce continues to reside there.

He is survived by his wife, Joyce Nyce Osborne; daughters Myrna Lapres (Michael), Marylin Wakefield (Brad) and Joanna Masingila (Adamson, deceased); daughter-in-law Naomi Martin (Sheldon); nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. His son, Eric, died in 1991.

Family fondly remember his many stories, tales, songs and poems. He was always eager to share whenever he had a new audience of sons-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandchildren and neighbors. His was a life well lived.

There was a memorial service and interment of his ashes on July 29, 2023, at Community Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg.