Mr. Joseph Frank Oglesby, 70, Rt. 2, Kissimmee, died Thursday.
A commercial artist, he was a native of Salt Lake City, Utah, and came to the Kissimmee area in 1954.
He was a veteran of World Wars I and II. At 48 he enrolled in the University of Tennessee with his two sons and graduated in 1951. He earned his mater's degree in 1953.
He was art director of the Tampa Tribune in 1925 and '26. He was scoutmaster for the first crippled Boy Scout troop. Members of the troop were patients at the Scottish Rite Hospital, Decatur, Ga.
Mr. Oglesby was a member of St. Johns Episcopal Church, Kissimmee. He was a technical illustrator for Radiation Inc., Melbourne from May 1958 until his retirement in 1965.
Survivors: wife, Mrs. Molly Meriweather; sons, Joseph M., Daytona Beach, Milton L. II, Amarillo, Tex.; sister, Mrs. George S. Pickett III, Winston-Salem, N.C., eight grandchildren.
Mr. Joseph Frank Oglesby, 70, Rt. 2, Kissimmee, died Thursday.
A commercial artist, he was a native of Salt Lake City, Utah, and came to the Kissimmee area in 1954.
He was a veteran of World Wars I and II. At 48 he enrolled in the University of Tennessee with his two sons and graduated in 1951. He earned his mater's degree in 1953.
He was art director of the Tampa Tribune in 1925 and '26. He was scoutmaster for the first crippled Boy Scout troop. Members of the troop were patients at the Scottish Rite Hospital, Decatur, Ga.
Mr. Oglesby was a member of St. Johns Episcopal Church, Kissimmee. He was a technical illustrator for Radiation Inc., Melbourne from May 1958 until his retirement in 1965.
Survivors: wife, Mrs. Molly Meriweather; sons, Joseph M., Daytona Beach, Milton L. II, Amarillo, Tex.; sister, Mrs. George S. Pickett III, Winston-Salem, N.C., eight grandchildren.
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