Obituaries
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Mother Ossie Lee Dillard
Mar 7, 2026
Ossie L. White-Wiggins-Dillard was born on September 24, 1939, in Terrell, Arkansas, the only child of Sarah Mullin-Brown and Booker T. West Sr. In 1955 she moved to South Bend, Indiana, to live with her father and her beloved stepmother, Geneva L. West, whom she affectionately called “Lil Momma.”
A graduate of Central High School in South Bend, Ossie continued her...



