Carol A Osborne

July 13, 1954 - February 25, 2005

Osborne, Carol A. (50) was born July 13, 1954 to C.E. and Frances (Hurley) Hoyle in Altus, OK, then moved to Tulsa in 1966. Carol passed from this life to be with her beloved Lord Jesus on February 25, 2005. She graduated from Memorial High School in 1972, then Oklahoma State University in May, 1975, with a B.S. in Elementary Education. She took an insurance job while searching for a teaching position, and fell in love with the property and casualty insurance business, staying in that field for the next 30 years. She enjoyed The Holmes Organisation, Inc. in 1978, retiring after 25 years at Holmes in 2003. She was a chartered property and casualty underwriter, recieving her designation in 1992. She continued to love teaching, and taught several insurance courses at TJC ( now TCC). Carol fought a brave battle against breast cancer with faith and optimism for more than ten years. Her thanks go to all of her doctors who helped in this fight, with very special thanks to Dr. Vicki Baker and her staff at Oklahoma Oncology.Funeral service will be held on Tuesday, March 1, 2005 at 2:00 P.M. at Christ United Methodist Church, 3515 South Harvard, Tulsa, OK. Interment will follow at Floral Haven Memorial Gardens.Survived By: her soulmate and beloved husband Terry; loving Dad C.E. Hoyle of Tulsa, OK, Jeanne Twente and husband Ed, of St. Charles, MO, Jan Posten, loving friend and “Second Sister” since childhood; stepsons Bill Osborne and wife Teresa of Broken Arrow, OK and LCpl Carl Luke Osborne of 29 Palms, CA; sister-in-law Debbie Collyar and husband Steve of Tulsa, OK and brothers-in-law Jeff Osborne of Nairobi, Kenya and Brian Osborne and wife Norma of South Ogden, UT. Other survivors include numerous friends and relatives as well as aunts and uncles Charlene and Sherman (Ned) Gray of Tulsa, and Doris and Howard Reib of Collinsville, OK, grandchildren Victoria and Zack Osborne, and nieces and nephews Julie and Shane Callahan of Broken Arrow, OK and Jeni and Matt Stamburski of O’Fallon, MO. Carol was preceded in death by her loving mother and also by her grandparents, as well as numerous aunts and uncles.