Alvin L. "Shy" Osborn
September 28, 1902 - January 23, 1987
by Rodger Croker
(Reprinted from Region 6 Newsletter, Spring 1987)

A. L. "Shy" Osborn of Clyde, Texas, passed away after a brief illness on January 23, 1987. The son of a Methodist Minister, he was a devout Christian and at 84 was still an active member of his church choir.

Shy and his wife, Glenna Belle, were active in the Big Country Daylily Society, Abilene, Texas.

Moving to Clyde from Cisco about thirty years ago, Glenna Belle had carved a beautiful garden out of a wooded area she gave the name "Armadillo Flats" because of the prolific number of those nuisances. After her passing in 1978, Shy continued her garden and selectively added to the existing collection. He also took her place in the Read Red Robin, led so many years by Mrs. Malcolm Collie of Brownwood and currently by Christine Short of Abilene.

Corresponding with friends and family, gardening, listening to classical music, photography, church, choir, and senior citizen activities, and avidly reading made him a very versatile man.

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