From the September 1996 Peg-Board
ANNA OSBORN passed away August 27, 1996 at the age of
eighty-three. She began her cartooning career as a caricaturist at the Venice
Pier, where she was "discovered" and went to work for MGM in 1937.
In the forties she was head animator on Jerry Fairbanks's Oscar-winning
series, Speaking of Animals. She worked for Disney and UPA as an assistant
animator, then at Friz Freleng's unit at Warner Bros., then at Hanna-Barbera
where she spent many years until her retirement. In 1987 she received the
Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Golden Award.
"Physically challenged" since early childhood, she was never deterred
by her disability, but prevailed over adversity. She was a devoted mother,
a doting grandmother and great-grandmother, and a faithful friend.
-- Sheila Brown
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