AN UNEXPECTED FAREWELL — No one saw it coming. In the quiet chapels of Lehi, Utah, where the Osmond legacy had once lit up stages around the world, Jimmy Fortune and Don Reid stood shoulder to shoulder among the mourners. The Statler Brothers legends, voices forged in decades of four-part harmony, had come to pay their final respects to Alan Osmond, the eldest brother whose steadfast spirit anchored a family phenomenon, who had passed at 76 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis.
The Heartbreaking Farewell That Shook the Music World: Legends Gather in Silence to Honor a Fallen Brother In the peaceful chapels nestled…