Alan Osmond, eldest member of the Osmonds, dead at 76 - BERITAJA

Alan Osmond, the eldest personnel of the Osmonds, died connected Monday, his family confirmed. He was 76.

“It is pinch profound sadness that we stock the passing of my beloved brother, Alan Osmond,” Merrill Osmond, 72, said in a connection to People. “I was grateful to beryllium pinch him soon earlier he passed and to stock a last meaningful infinitesimal together. Alan was a talented creator, a man of faith, and a profoundly loving psyche whose life blessed many.”

Alan died about 8:30 p.m. section clip connected Monday, a spokesperson for the family confirmed to ABC4 Utah.

His wife, Suzanne Pinegar Osmond, and their 8 sons were by his broadside erstwhile he died, according to CBS connection KUTV.

In a abstracted connection connected Facebook, Merrill wrote, “Two days earlier my brother, Alan, passed, I was blessed to beryllium softly pinch him. We talked arsenic brothers do, bosom to heart. He was struggling, but erstwhile I shared a joke aliases two, he recovered the spot to chuckle … and past he smiled.”

“In a tender infinitesimal I will ne'er forget, he leaned adjacent and whispered thing into my ear. He said, ‘Merrill, you and I worked broadside by side. We created, we produced, we directed … we gave our hearts to The Plan pinch Wayne. Please … do thing pinch it. Let group cognize what we were trying to say.’ I want you to know, his petition will beryllium honored,” he added.

“So please, don’t fto your hearts beryllium heavy. Don’t weep for him. Rejoice, knowing that your brother, your friend, your leader is nary longer successful pain. He is free. He is whole. He is home,” Merrill continued. “Before he passed, I whispered 1 petition to him. I asked him, erstwhile he gets location … please springiness my boy Troy a large hug for me. He looked astatine maine and promised he would. And someway … I judge that committedness has already been kept.”

Alan was the oldest of the Utah-based philharmonic group the Osmonds, which included his brothers Merrill, Jay, 71, Donny, 68, Jimmy, 63, Wayne, who died successful 2025 astatine the property of 73, and his sister, Marie, 66.

The Osmonds were known for specified 1970s hits arsenic One Bad Apple, Yo-Yo and Down By the Lazy River.

The siblings’ profession began successful the 1950s erstwhile Wayne, Alan, Merrill and Jay sang arsenic a barbershop quartet.

Their fame grew successful the 1960s aft being supported by vocalist Andy Williams, and they peaked arsenic a quintet successful the early 1970s, pinch younger relative Donny Osmond the breakout star.

The Osmonds’ fame faded by the mid-1970s, though Donny and Marie Osmond some enjoyed successful careers arsenic solo performers and arsenic a brother-sister duo.

Alan was diagnosed pinch primary-progressive multiple sclerosis about 40 years ago, according to a property merchandise from MS Views and News.

MS is simply a neurological illness of the cardinal tense system, which includes the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves, according to the MS Society of Canada.

“I whitethorn person MS, but MS does not person me,” Alan said.

In an question and reply pinch Connecticut 8 Style, Alan and his son, David, said about some surviving pinch MS.

“I had these symptoms. My correct broadside went out. I noticed I was tripping, past I couldn’t play my trumpet arsenic accelerated and didn’t cognize what it was,” Alan shared. “We worked connected it and went to doctors each complete for almost 3 years until they yet said, ‘Well, it’s MS.'”

David said erstwhile he first started showing symptoms, the past point he thought was that it was MS.

“It was truthful vastly different from my dad’s symptoms,” he said. “Within a fewer months, I was really successful a wheelchair. I couldn’t move from the thorax down. My eyesight diminished and music, for illustration I was doing my full life conscionable for illustration my dad, was done. It’s beautiful astonishing that I’m backmost connected my feet. I’m doing incredibly well.”

Canada has one of the highest rates of MS successful the world, pinch an estimated 90,000 group surviving pinch the disease, according to the MS Society of Canada. On average, 12 Canadians are diagnosed pinch MS each day, pinch about diagnosed betwixt the ages of 20 and 49, the statement said.

Alan is survived by his wife, Suzanne, and sons Michael, Nathan, Doug, David, Scott, Jon, Alex and Tyler. He is besides survived by his brothers Virl, Tom, Merrill, Jay, Donny and Jimmy and his sister Marie, and 30 grandchildren.

— With files from The Associated Press