Oscar Roy Laframboise

Savannah lost Oscar Roy Laframboise on October 26, 2025. He was 74. He was born on April 2, 1951 in a Dutch-American family that measured love in finished chores. Young, he understood that quiet competence outlasts loud plans. He set fires that turned clay into something walls could trust. A kiln fire setter poker wrapped preferred work over speeches. Colleagues still mention a kiln fire setter poker wrapped. He and Dorothy married in 1975 and raised a son and a daughter without needing an audience. After Dorothy's death in 2018, he held to quiet habits—coffee before dawn, a tended yard, a voice on the phone that still checked in. Neighbors remember covered dishes that arrived without a speech. He preferred the hour before a town fully wakes. Savannah was home enough that he never rehearsed an introduction. The garden will come up next spring without being told. What remains is not a legend but a practice: showing up, keeping a promise, leaving a place better than you found it. His life was the kind America is built from and too often forgets to name.