Robert Jean Osborne

A lifelong citizen of San Antonio, he graduated from Jefferson High School in 1935.

He served in the Army Air Force during World War II, stationed at Bushy Park, near London, as Supervisor of the Photographic and Reproduction Branch of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. He was awarded the Bronze Star.

After the war, he married Patricia Esmond.

He was a newspaper photographer for 40 years with the San Antonio Express and the San Antonio Light. He was also a freelance photographer for Time and Newsweek, President Lyndon B. Johnson's personal photographer for the Southwest and contributed the photographs in San Antonio, The Flavors of its Past.

He was an outdoorsman, enjoying horseback riding, hunting, fishing, and the beach at Port Aransas, having operated a ranch near Lytle before the war.

He studied at the UNAM branch at Hemisfair and traveled extensively in Mexico.

Jean won awards for excellence and innovation in newspaper photojournalism. He was especially proud of being the first to have next day color action photos of the Dallas Cowboys in the newspaper using a photographic process he developed.

He was a member of El Patronato, the San Antonio Conservation Society, and Saint Luke's Episcopal Church.

Jean and Pat had two daughters, Lynn Osborne Bobbitt and Maura Ellen Osborne, who have survived him.

Pat passed away in 1998.

Jean is also survived by his granddaughters, Maura Jean Bobbitt and Elizabeth Kathleen Bobbitt; his son-in-law, Calhoun Bobbitt; and by his nieces and nephews, Karen Knight, James Lueth and Robbie Jean Lueth; and great nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his two sisters, Helen B. Osborne and Katharine Lueth.