Margaret Long Osgood, age 91 of Lambertville, Michigan passed away peacefully on Monday April 4, 2016 in Vibrant Life Senior Living. The daughter of the Rev. James and Bess (Nye) Long, she was born August 1, 1924 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Maggi was a student of the Dayton Art Institute from an early childhood throughContinue Reading
Margaret Long Osgood, age 91 of Lambertville, Michigan passed away peacefully on Monday April 4, 2016 in Vibrant Life Senior Living. The daughter of the Rev. James and Bess (Nye) Long, she was born August 1, 1924 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Maggi was a student of the Dayton Art Institute from an early childhood through high school.
She graduated from Sidney High School (Ohio) in 1942 and worked in a war plant during World War II. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1949 and worked in Mainz Germany doing reconstruction work that summer. After 3 years of Graduate studies at the University of Chicago, she wed William Matthews in 1953 and worked for two architectural design and construction firms in Galesburg, Illinois. She returned to graduate school for a degree in Art and Architectural History in 1966 and taught at Monmouth College (Illinois)
Architectural Design for the Monarch Machine Tool Company called her back to Sidney, Ohio for eleven years before leaving the practice to wed Harold Osgood of Rockville, Maryland. There she did volunteer work for Community Ministries of Rockville. Harold and Margaret moved to Lambertville in 2002 and are members of Erie United Methodist Church.
Maggi is survived by her husband Harold Osgood of Lambertville, Michigan ; three sons, Wym Matthews of Sheridan, Oregon; Charles Matthews of Baltimore, Maryland and James Matthews of Pau, France; grandchildren, Dr. Margaret Phillips of Eldridge, Iowa, Janice Brattvet of Davenport, Iowa and Nicolas Engst Matthews of Pau, France; great-grandchildren; Michael and Matthew Phillips and Ethan, Avery & Ella Brattvett; Harold Osgood’s two children, Kim of Chicago and Scott of Cincinnati have been faithful friends.
She was preceded in death by grandson, Stephen Matthews and her 6 siblings; sisters, Marcella Long, Miriam Nead, Mary Gillespie; brothers, James, Arthur and George.
A Memorial gathering will be held Saturday, April 9, 2016 from 10:00 a.m until 11:00 a.m. in the Urbanski’s Bedford Funeral Chapel 8300 Lewis Avenue Temperance, MI. where a memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Cremation has taken place. Donations may be made on her behalf to the Dayton Art Institute, contact Ryan Pasco, Individual Giving Coordinator, at rpasco@daytonart.org or 937-512-0139.
Online condolences may be shared at www.bedfordfuneralchapel.com.
Aunt Maggie was a truly beautiful person inside and out. She had a witty sense of humor, a giving spirit, and a love of learning that lasted her entire life. She will be missed, but our family will take comfort in the memories we share and in the knowledge that she walks with Angels now and will be waiting for us in heaven. My thought and prayers are with our Uncle Hal and the rest of her family.
John 14:1-4
Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.
Paul and Linda
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