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Osmond. She and her husband look forward to^seeing their two sons Verl, 23, and Tom, 21, who they have not seen during the time they have been completing two years of work as missionaries in Canada for the Mormon Church. Tom, who has a hearing handicap, and his brother have set up an initial program for the church for the deaf. Next month there will be a reunion with Grandmother Vera Davis and Grandmother Uaverna Osmond, widows, who Jive a block from each other in Ogden, Utah.At that, time Family Night, which is observed ritually on Friday night wherever the entertainers may be, will he a special grand .occasion.Mrs. Osmond is honest in her praises of her children, who she says are “never idle, and are kind hearted, diligent and hard working. They have always wanted to be working toward something.” The children are tutored by Hon Myers, a Buffalo University alumnus, who also has a master’s degree. Cleared through the Utah Hoard of education, the general correspondence courses from the American School, Chicago, and the Calvidge School of Baltimore, Md., are used for study three hours a day—summertime included, in addition to music and dancing lessons. Mother Osmond helps out, too. “My mother, father and brother were school teachers, and that is what I’d probably be doing,” she stated, if she hadn’t met George Vcrl Osmond of Etna, Wyo., while he was in the Air Force, and married him in 1944.25th WEDDING ANNIVERSARYThat 25th wedding anniversary next year also is being planned. While they were on a recent singing tour in Sweden, George bought Olive her first complete silver service {which she says will serve the whole family), a silver punch bowl and cups, and a silver buffeteria.With so much happiness to show, the Osmonds attempt to hide their consternation at the war situation and their son Allen’s entering of the National Guard Reserve of California for six years of sendee.One of the first mottos the family adopted was “Prepare yourself and the opportunity will come.” The musical background that the children have had, encouraged by former realtor Mr. Osmond, who was a member of the famed Master Singers of Utah, led to the opportunity presented by Andy Williams, who has “adopted” them.“I am sold on big families,” Mrs. Osmond concluded. “I hope each one of my. children has nine children, and then happily added with another plan for the future, “ThenI’ll have 81 grandchildren,”
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Red Bank Register
Red Bank, New Jersey, US
Thu, Aug 08, 1968
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