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Chuck Osborne:
Detailed Biography
Detailed
Biography
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Biographical Highlights
Early Years
Military Career
Aviation Career
Post-Aviation Career
Family
Education
Osborne Family Genealogy
Early
Years
I was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the eldest of five children
of Charles Edgar Osborne, Sr. and Mary Lucille Mattingly. My
father was a veteran of WWII and worked for 28 years at the
local DuPont plant where neoprene rubber was manufactured. He
also served as the President of the Neoprene Craftsman’s Union,
the local bargaining agent for the union, for approximately ten
years. My mother was a registered nurse and died in childbirth
delivering her sixth child.
I attended St. John Vianney Parish grade school for all
grades except the fourth grade. I attended the fourth grade
while I was at St. Thomas St. Vincent Orphanage following the
death of my mother. I completed grade school in 1964 and
continued schooling in the Catholic school system, graduating
from St. Francis DeSales High School in 1968.
In the years after my mother’s death, as the eldest, I had to
assume the role of “second-in-command” during the school year. Each summer I worked on my grandparent’s farm in
Henderson, Kentucky.
My grandparents, and later my uncles, farmed several thousand
acres and grew corn, wheat, soybeans, and tobacco. Livestock on
the farm numbered approximately 400 head of cattle and nearly
2,000 head of hogs. On the farm, I drove a wide assortment of
farm vehicles and performed about every task that needed to be
done — cutting, raking and bailing hay;
threshing wheat; shelling corn; and working tobacco, from
planting to cutting to storing it, in the fields and in the
tobacco barns. At home and on the farm, I learned about
hard work and the rewards of doing a job the right way, the
first time.
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