Art Ogsbury home with softened heart

by Marcello Iaia

DELANSON — This year, Art Ogsbury’s daughters heard him give a blessing before the family’s Thanksgiving meal for the first time.

A welder retired from General Electric, Ogsbury had an accident in May that sent him on a medical odyssey. His family worried he wouldn’t survive an antibiotic-resistant staph infection this summer and surgery to mend a ruptured aneurysm from a welding accident. He underwent heart surgery just a few weeks ago.

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