Bruce Vincent Osborne

May 30, 1946 – May 21, 2022
Acushnet, MA – Hoodsport, WA

A person with a white beard

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Bruce was a Hoodsport resident for the last 26 years where it was a self-employed Director of Maintenance with the following skills:

                  HVAC Controls

                  Service Technician

                  Preventative Maintenance Coordinator

                  Driving Trainer/ Instructor

                  CDL Class A/ Long Haul (with his wife, Pat Hoff)

 

Bruce was known for his art and in fact he built the Viking mask that he's wearing in the picture at the upper left which was taken at the Annual fjordincrossin events in Hoodsport. (He made sure nobody stole the aqavit!)

 

Bruce graduated from Tecumseh High School New Carlyle, OH. This lower picture at the left was taken at age 20 as he joined the United States Air Force. He was sent DaNang where he survived the Tet Offensive in January, 1968imagejpeg_0.jpg Bruce is survived by his sister Dee Sweeney who lives in Port Townsend Bruce was buried with Honors in the Tahoma National Cemetary in Kent, WA where both his parents are buried. In this picture, Bruce is holding the two trout he caught in Lake Leeland a month before he died. Bruce's water color self-portrait as a Viking Bruce painted this water color of this Pelican