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Kate Kristine Osborn, 89

| September 23, 2021 1:00 AM

Kate Kristine "Kris" (Eldridge) Osborn, died Aug. 23, 2021, at home in Coeur d’Alene. Kris was born April 8, 1932, in Albany, N.Y. to Harry and Kate (Larsen) Eldridge. She graduated from Albany Academy for Girls in 1950 and then attended Colby Junior College for Women in New London, N.H., for her first two years of college. Kris received a bachelor’s degree in education from Tufts University in Boston in 1954 with an emphasis in preschool teaching. She was teaching preschool in Baltimore in 1956 when she met and dated Alva “Ozzie” Osborn.

In 1957, Kris traveled to Oslo, Norway, where her mother was born and raised, to attend a cooking school for six months. Kris married “Ozzie” Osborn on June 14, 1958, in Dillon, Mont. They lived in Wisdom, Mont. for four years and were blessed while there with two children, a daughter Kari, and a son Andy. They moved to Coeur d'Alene in 1963.

Kris volunteered for several years as a teacher's aide at Dalton Elementary School, then worked at the Coeur d'Alene Public Library, and finally as a nurse’s aide for Panhandle Home Health. She volunteered as a clown visiting residents in several rest homes and patients in the hospital. Kris was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church and taught Sunday school, sang in the choir, was a deacon, a Stephen's Minister and chaired the church library.

Kris is survived by her husband, at home; daughter Kari Dickinson of Moscow, Idaho; son and daughter-in-law Andy and Susanne (Chaffee) Osborn of Coeur d'Alene; eight grandchildren: Katelyn (Logan) Ownbey, Lindy, Kiersti (Austin) Tilley, Daniel, Janae, Elisa, Faith, and Joel; two great-grandchildren; brothers Bliss (Joan) Eldridge of Palm Desert, Calif. and John Eldridge of Lake Placid, N.Y. She was preceded in death by her parents, her brother Harry Knapp Eldridge, and her grandson, Luke Osborn.

The memorial service will be 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, at the First Presbyterian Church in Coeur d’Alene with Yates Funeral Home in care of the arrangements. The family suggests memorials to the First Presbyterian Church of Coeur d’Alene, the Coeur d’Alene Public Library or to Alzheimer’s research.