Louise Osborne

Louise Martin Osborne, aged 70 and known to her friends and family as Weezie, died Friday, November 24th at The Connecticut Hospice, by the ocean in Branford, CT.

Weezie grew up in Chatham, NJ, the middle of three sisters, and graduated from Chatham High School where she was the editor in chief of the school newspaper and a cheerleader. She then attended Wheaton College in Norton, MA.

After graduating, she worked her way across Europe doing odd jobs, having many great adventures, learning several languages, and making friends wherever she went. She lived in England, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. She finally settled in NYC, where she met and married the father of her two children, David Haedt. She raised her children in the towns of Westport, Wilton, New Haven and Litchfield, CT. She had a very successful career doing executive search for architecture, engineering and design firms.

In recent years she simultaneously maintained residences in Litchfield, CT; the Upper East Side of Manhattan; Sun Valley, ID; and Harpswell, ME.  She always remained a free-spirited adventurer; her recent winter residence in Morocco supplied lively stories at her many cocktail and dinner parties. She loved her two grandsons with all her heart and would drop everything to be with them. "Mima" is mourned by so many. Her charm, exuberance, warmth and gaiety will never be forgotten.

Weezie is survived by her daughter, Olivia Stevens, her son-in-law Chris Stevens, her grandsons Gage and Gunnar Stevens, her son MacKay Haedt, and her older sister Betsy Bond. She was predeceased by her younger sister Jean Osborne. She is the daughter of the late William T. Osborne and Janet MacKay Osborne.

A funeral service will be held at 2pm on Friday, December 1st at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in New Canaan, CT, 111 Oenoke Ridge. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the charity that Weezie's grandfather founded for at-risk boys in New Jersey, The Bonnie Brae School, PO Box 825, Liberty Corner, NJ, bonnie-brae.org .

Services have been entrusted to Hoyt-Cognetta Funeral Home, Norwalk. Please visit www.norwalkfh.com for more information.