Welcome letter from the President

Welcome letter from the President

FRANK OSBORNE VIRGINIA 1815 JUDIE OSBORNE GEORGIA 1810 Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation. Joel 1:7 NIV T H E I R 1 0 C H I L D R E N No. NAME BIRTHPLACE YEAR 1 Henry Osborne Georgia 1833 2 James Osborne Sr. Georgia 1840 3 John Osborne Georgia 1843 4 Jane Osborne Stell Georgia 1845 5 Emanuel Osborne Georgia 1848 6 Rachel Osborne West Alabama 1852 7 (Hillard) William Osborne Alabama 1853 8 Rhoda Osborne Hopkins Alabama 1856 9 Tulip Osborne Myles Alabama 1857 10 Violet Osborne Boatner Louisiana 1860 (source: Ancestry.com)

The 2017 Frank and Judie O S B O R N E Family Reunion Itinerary * Friday Aug. 25, 2017 Meet and Greet / Package Pick-Up Where: Time: Attire Sleep Inn Hotel, Ruston, LA - Meeting Room 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Come as you are - Comfortable and Relaxed Light refreshments served * Saturday Aug. 26, 2017 - Family Picnic Where: Lincoln Parish Park, Ruston LA Pavilion #5 Time: 8:00AM - 9:30AM Clean up/setup (Helping hands needed) Breakfast setup/food delivery 10:00 AM 2:00 PM - con td Package PickUp / Picnic Celebration / Games / Contests / Break-Aways 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Meal served 12:00 Noon Family Group Picture / Business Meeting 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM - Clean up (Helping hands needed) Attire: Reunion T-shirts - be comfortable stay cool Admission: $2.00 per person (Park assessment) * Saturday - Aug. 26, 2017 - Family Celebration Banquet Where: Time: Attire: Eddie G. Robinson Museum, Grambling State University 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM con td Package PickUp /Registration at the door 4:00 PM 4:30 PM - Get acquainted and tour of museum 4:30 PM - Family march in / Family Photo / Program starts 5:00 PM - Meal served 6:00 PM - Keynote speaker 6:30 PM - Awards 7:00 PM - Adjourns / clean up (Helping hands needed) Casual wear / slacks jeans / Reunion T-shirts * Sunday - Aug. 27, 2017 - Family Worship Service Where: Time: St. Rest Missionary Baptist Church, St. Rest, 831 St. Rest Road, St. Rest, LA (Quitman, LA) 9:45AM Sunday School - 11:00AM - Church Service 1:00 PM Family Dinner - 3:00 PM - 4 th Sunday In August Homecoming Service WE ARE ADJOURNED TIL 2019 SEE YOU THEN And LET US STAY IN TOUCH

The 2017 Frank and Judie Osborne F a m i l y R e u n i o n R e m e m b e r i n g O U R P A S T C e l e b r a t i n g O U R P R E S E N T A n t i c i p a t i n g O U R F U T U R E Celebration Banquet Programme Opening Remarks - Prayer Scripture Old and New Testament Welcome - Remembering OUR PAST - The History Committee In Memorium / Frank and Judie s Story Celebrating OUR PRESENT - Who Traveled the Farthest ~ Most Children in Attendance Oldest and Youngest Osborne in Attendance Introduction of Keynote Speaker - Sis. Sofronia Osborne Carr Keynote - Mr. Jonathan K. Osborne, Esq. Assistant United States Attorney for the U. S. Department of Justice for the Southern District of Florida Anticipating OUR FUTURE - Closing Remarks M.C. Scholarship and Achievement 2017 2019 Osborne Reunion President Lift Every Voice The Negro National Anthem (Please stand)

Lift Every Voice and Sing Related Poem Content Details BY JAMES WELDON JOHNSON A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercises. I wrote the words and he wrote the music. Our New York publisher, Edward B. Marks, made mimeographed copies for us, and the song was taught to and sung by a chorus of five hundred colored school children. Shortly afterwards my brother and I moved away from Jacksonville to New York, and the song passed out of our minds. But the school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children. Within twenty years it was being sung over the South and in some other parts of the country. Today the song, popularly known as the Negro National Hymn, is quite generally used. The lines of this song repay me in an elation, almost of exquisite anguish, whenever I hear them sung by Negro children. Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us. Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won. Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, Till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by Thy might Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee, Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee; Shadowed beneath Thy hand, May we forever stand. True to our God, True to our native land.

Sofronia Osborne Carr Reunion Planning Cmt. Chairperson and Acting Asst. Treas.

Sleep Inn Hotel, Ruston LA 2017 Reunion Designated Lodging 106 South Service Road East, Ruston, LA, 71270, US Phone: (318) 232-1100 Fax: (318) 232-1101 Call to place YOUR reservation before August 15, 2017 - group name Frank and Judie Osborne Family Reunion Rates: $89.00 daily / 2 Queen beds We're conveniently located off Interstate 20 and U.S. Highway 167 Rest and Relaxation and complimentary full breakfast Meet and Greet Meeting Room

Lincoln Parish Park, Ruston, LA Site of the 2017 Frank and Judie Osborne Family Picnic 211 Parish Park Rd, Ruston, LA 71270 ALL CHILDREN MUST BE ACCOMPANIED and SUPERVISED BY THEIR PARENT(S) OR GAURDIAN(S) DURING ALL ACTIVITIES.. NO EXCEPTION -

Eddie G. Robinson Museum, Grambling LA Site of the Family Banquet Dinner Eddie G. Robinson Museum 126 Jones St. Grambling, LA 71245

St. Rest Missionary Baptist Church and Life Center, Quitman LA Sites for Sunday worship and dinner on the grounds 831 Saint Rest Rd, Quitman, LA 71268 (318) 259-9593

Reunion Planning Committee History Committee Fund Raising Committee Caterer Coordinator Decoration Committee ~ ~ ~ Photographer Videographer I T Technician