Adesua "Addie" Alicia Osula

Addie, the precious daughter of Pat Osula, was born on September 10th, 2003, in Irvine, California. She was adored and loved by everyone for her gentle spirit and endless displays of love and kindness to those she touched.

Addie began her educational journey in Ladera Ranch, California and her drive and ambition led her to attend the prestigious Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts, after completing her elementary and middle school in Ellicott City, Maryland and Cary, North Carolina.

Addie had a broad range of extra-curricular interests, including visual arts, athletics, STEM research, foreign languages (French, German, Mandarin), and music (piano & cello). She was a committed athlete and four-time qualifier for the national track and field Junior Olympics. She also served as a volunteer intern at University of North Carolina's Lineberger Cancer Research Center, investigating biomedical engineering design processes. Addie was a Board member of A-RISE (Abbott Research Innovation, Science and Engineering Society), and member of Habitat for Humanity at Phillips Academy. She co-founded the Phillips Academy Music Academy, which served as a musical outreach to the elderly.

Addie was especially passionate about the sciences and her ambition was to become a neurosurgeon. After graduating from high school, she took a gap year to further explore her interests and worked as a medical technician for Williams Eyecare Center in Frisco, where she thoroughly enjoyed working with her teammates and serving customers.

In the last couple of years, Addie developed a keen interest in Anime and a passion for Asian (Japanese & Korean) culture and cuisine. She loved traveling internationally and visited - United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland, France, Canada, Dominican Republic, Barbados, Antigua, Dominica, Mexico, Belize, and Honduras, among other places.

Addie is predeceased by her grandfather, Aiwa Andrews Osula, and survived by her grandmother, Alice Osula; mother, Pat Osula; Uncles – Charles, Wilfred, Bramwell, and Abel Osula; Aunts – Rhona, Julie, Abimbola, Gwen, Donna, Lina, and Stefania. She is survived by her cousins – Gemma, Andrew, Andrea, Chillel, Adrian, Michelle, Amber, Georgia, Alex, Uyi, and Callan; and four great cousins – Imayah, Asiyah, Aria and Ayana. She is also survived by her extended family – James & Nicole Matthews, John McCulloh, The O'Conner, Sodeke-Oyewole, Owokoniran, Kujore, Ogunnaike, Unuigbe, Alufohai, Eke, Pandita, Wheeler, Merine, and Simpson families, Team Accelerate and her EY and Grant Thornton family.

The Family would like to give special thanks to all the friends and families traveling to celebrate Addie’s life. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in Addie’s name be made to the ‘Find Your Anchor’ organization - https://findyouranchor.us/Donate, one of Grant Thornton’s charitable Purple Paladins. Please be sure to add "Addie Osula" in the comments when making your donation.

Find Your Anchor is a grassroots movement aimed at suicide prevention, awareness and education. The premise behind Find Your Anchor is that each person needs an anchor - a dependable, stable, secure base that you can hold on to, one that keeps you firmly planted, no matter what winds or storms may come your way. Find Your Anchor doesn't assume to be the anchor, or have all the answers, rather, it sets out to create a community of anchors, all with the help of some little blue boxes.

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