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Hilda Osborne was born Hilda Jean Patterson on September 25, 1951, in Nashville, Tennessee. She grew up in Nashville, except for a few years when her family lived in Kingston Springs, a small rural community just outside Nashville. She graduated from Hume-Fogg Technical (now Hume-Fogg Academic) High School in 1970. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Organizational Management from Tusculum College in 1994, and a Master's Degree in Adult Education in 2008.
Ms. Osborne is a cancer survivor. In February 2009 she was diagnosed with colon cancer after a routine colonoscopy. The cancer was removed and she underwent chemotherapy during the summer of 2009. She is currently doing well with no recurrence of the cancer. She has become a strong advocate of routine colonoscopies.
Ms. Osborne plays many roles in life. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, and a grandparent-turned-parent-again. She works full-time at her "day job" and squeezes in time for writing. She is an active member of her church, and she attends ballgames and school events when her grandchildren are involved. She enjoys tending to her flower beds and indulges in her hobby of photography, using digital, 35mm, and video cameras. Along with her husband Steve, they have three children, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Her published works include:
TICKLEBELLY HILL, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
AuthorHouse (formerly 1st Books Library)
ISBN 1-4033-9077-0, February 2003Best Friends, a poem, published in The Language of Memory, A Compilation of Poetry
ISBN 0-7951-5041-5, 2001In His Service, article published in Monday Morning, a Presbyterian magazine (no longer in print) November 1997
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