Obituary Record

John Al Osoinach, 70, former Bay St. Louis resident and longtime Memphis, Tenn., attorney who specialized in business and corporation law, died last Thursday in Cross Village, Mich., where he had been on vacation with his wife. He had been ill the past two years, but his condition was not thought serious.

Mr. Osoinach was born in Bay St. Louis and started his education at Bay High, later going to the University of Mississippi and George Washington University. He was editor of the Daily Herald for some time and practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio, before moving to Memphis to join the old firm of Fitzhugh, Dixon and Osoinach. He was also executive secretary of the Memphis Chamber of Commerce. He was active in the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, and has written articles of a philosophical nature for a number of widely-read magazines, including the distinguished Hibbert Journal published in Great Britain.

He was well-versed in current events and politics, taking an active part in campaigns for Senator Estes Kefauver, but ill health did not permit him to do so this year.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ruth Campbell Osoinach; two sons, John Campbell Osoinach of Wichita Falls, Texas, and Harrison Kirkland Osoinach of Memphis; two sisters, Mrs. P. E. Porter of Bay St. Louis and Mrs. A. G. Anderson of Los Angeles and two grandchildren. He was the brother of the late Henry Osoinach, Sr., and uncle of Henry Osoinach, Jr.

Source: unknown newspaper 09-01-1960