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Obituary for Henry Oswald Waisanen

Henry Oswald  Waisanen
WARREN - Henry “Ozzie” Waisanen died Sunday morning in his Warren home with his daughter Julie by his side. Born to Laine Johanna and John Henry Waisanen, Ozzie is predeceased by two half-sisters, Lillian and Vivian.

A 1951 graduate of Warren High School, Ozzie began his adult life driving a dump truck for Chester Wallace. It was while driving this truck he saw Flora Wiley getting the mail and asked her for a date. That led to marriage and two children, Wendy Laina and John Henry II.

Later Ozzie took a position as a foreman at Bonner Varter, a form printing company in Rockland. He worked there for several years. He also had his CDL and drove the occasional long haul. Ozzie was an accomplished carpenter and mechanic. He could fix or build just about anything. Wendy recalls bringing home a couple of motorcycles in baskets which he fixed, painted, and reassembled. They ran perfectly and were enjoyed by the family for years.

Ozzie’s final career move was as a mechanic at Gammon’s Garage for Irving Gammon where he worked until he retired in 2002.

Flora, his first wife died in early 1978. In 1979, after having received a very nice letter of condolence from a former high school sweetheart, the two reconnected. He married Phyllis Luce and the Waisanen family got three new sisters, Anilda, Lori, and Julie. Ozzie and Phyllis had 29 blissful years together until her death in 2008.

Friends and family will remember Ozzie as a quiet man with a dry sense of humor and a soft chuckle when he found something amusing. The moments we will remember most are when he broke character - modeling his eight year old son’s Indian headdress to amuse his wife after the graveyard shift; singing and yodeling one evening at a family get together; and reciting a bawdy poem, caught on tape.

Ozzie will be missed by all his family, both birth and marriage.

Ozzie is survived by his children; Wendy Trommer and her husband Jack, John Waisanen and his wife Deidre, Anilda Riggs, Lori Luce, and Julie Huber and her husband Joe; grandchildren, John Waisanen III, Jarod Waisanen, Donnie Riggs and his wife Christy, Jennifer Gensler and her husband Neil, Ramona Logan and her husband Justin, Savannah Bizier and her husband Marcus, Courtney Pitcher, and Chelsea O’Donnell; plus several great-grandchildren, extended family, and friends.

Friends and relatives are invited to visit from 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. Thursday, July 28, 2016, at Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home, 110 Limerock Street, Rockland, where a funeral service will be held at 2:00 P.M., Friday. The Reverend Terrence Willis will officiate. Interment will follow in Fairview Cemetery, Patterson Mill Road, Warren.

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