Article: George Osmond, father of music clan, dies at 90

PROVO -- Last August, Nathan Osmond took advantage of the opportunity to video-record his children sitting on their great- grandfather's lap during a special family home evening. For the first time, that same night, he performed the song he had promised his grandfather, George Osmond, he would write for him many years earlier.

"I knew it wouldn't be much longer," Nathan Osmond said. "I had to carry through with my promise."

George Virl Osmond died at his home Tuesday morning. He was 90 years old.

His children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will remember George Osmond as the Wyoming cowboy, as he called himself. The world, however, will remember him as the head of an entertainment ...

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