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Brad Lee Oseth

Fontana, CA, USA

December 21, 1957 - June 16, 2021

Dec 21, 1957 - Jun 16, 2021

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Brad Lee Oseth went home to Jesus on June 16, 2021, at age 63.

Brad was born to Beverly and Henry Oseth on December 21, 1957, in Fontana, California. Brad was an only child, and he liked it that way. He always had a dog he loved, and plenty of adventures to tell about when he got older. He grew up in Desert Hot Springs, CA.

Early on, Brad did yard work and odd jobs for Seniors in his community. Then when he was 16 years old, Brad got a job as a dish washer in a hotel coffee shop. In high school Brad completed the Palm Springs Police Cadet program and for a while considered becoming a police officer, but he also considered the possibilities of becoming a welder, or an auto mechanic because he excelled in both. He dreamed of working on the Alaska pipeline and being a race car driver. He did get the opportunity to race a stock car for awhile; but at 17 he proposed to Barbara, and after that, his interests turned more to their future together. After graduating from Palm Springs High School, he worked for a short time pumping gas and doing mechanic work in a gas station, and then for an Electrical Company, before joining the Carpenters Union’s Apprenticeship program at College of the Desert, in Palm Desert, CA. He really enjoyed building, and he did side work laying cement, hanging drywall, and building room additions. For a while he ran his own gardening business. Then after working 18 years as a Journeyman Carpenter, Brad retrained to become a long-haul truck driver. He drove Big Rigs for 23 years, and he knew roads all over the lower 48 states, like the back of his hand. He received numerous awards for safety, and also for consistently delivering on time every time. He took off 1 year from truck driving to drive a small bus for Senior Citizens, and of course, the highlight for him was talking with his passengers and taking them off their route on special jaunts that he knew they would enjoy. Brad retired from truck driving after he had a massive heart attack on March 26, 2019. For the next 2 1/2 years Brad battled Congestive Heart Failure, which resulted in Brad receiving a heart and kidney transplant on April 2, 2021. Two and a half months later Brad passed away from Septic Shock that came on very suddenly.

Brad met his wife, Barbara, in 1974, at the school bus stop when she was in 8th grade, and he was in 10th grade. Not long after they met Brad asked Barbara, “Will you go steady with me?” Of course she quickly said, “Yes.” Within a year Brad proposed marriage to Barbara and she accepted, however because of how young they were they did not officially get engaged for two more years. After a one year engagement they got married on June 16, 1978, one week after Barbara also graduated from Palm Springs High School. The year after they were married they moved from Desert Hot Springs, to Fontana, California, into a Sears kit house that was built in 1949 by Brad’s mother’s parents. They went on to have 3 children, Jesse in 1980, Cassandra in 1983, and Elysia in 1988, whom they raised in that same house, and where Brad and Barbara still lived together at the time of his passing.

Brad was a kindhearted, fun loving, and good-natured man who enjoyed talking to people. He always had a very close relationship with his parents. He was a loving, faithful, and supportive husband. He spent time with his children and shared interests with all of them. His family was the center of his life. He worked hard to support them, and they appreciated the sacrifices he made when he became a truck driver. He was friendly and enjoyed meeting and talking to people. He loved having a good sense of humor, and teasing his wife, kids, and grandkids, pretty much daily. Brad enjoyed playing the stock market, and earned enough from his investments in 2010, to take Barbara, his 3 adult children, and his daughter-in-law on an 1 week vacation of a lifetime to Oahu, Hawaii. They had such a good time that Brad took his family back to Hawaii in 2012. In 2014 earnings from his stock market investments again helped pay for a vacation he and Barbara took with Brad’s Dad to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York City, and Niagara Falls. In addition Brad enjoyed having the opportunity to vacation with Barbara and his Dad, as they traveled together to Alaska and/or Canada 5 different times, one of which included traveling through his Dad's home state of Minnesota. They also took vacations that took them from Louisiana to Florida, Washington DC to North Carolina, Wyoming to South Dakota and Colorado, and from California to Washington state.

Throughout his life Brad sincerely loved God, and he believed in Jesus as his personal Savior. He served in his church for a few years by teaching the Royal Ranger’s boys program and by driving the church bus to transport kids to services and summer camp.

Brad joins his mother, Beverly Oseth, and granddaughter Lily in heaven.

Brad is survived by his father, Henry Oseth; his wife, Barbara Oseth; his son, Jesse Oseth, daughter-in-law, Krystle Oseth, and their 2 daughters, Izabella and Mila; his daughter Cassandra Oseth, her partner Tom Byers, and their 5 children, Makinzy, Makayla, Abigail, Tommy, and Madison; his daughter Elysia Oseth, and her daughter Alexis.

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