Ogden Lazenby Obituary

Mr. Ogden Lazenby, age 89 of Beaufort, SC passed away on November 1, 2025 at Sprenger Healthcare of Port Royal.
Graveside funeral service will be held on Monday, November 10, 2025 at 2:30pm in Beaufort Memorial Gardens.
Ogden was a long-standing member of the King Street Church of Christ, where he
remained very active in teaching and lay ministry up to the very end of his life. Because
of the military presence in Beaufort, members of the denomination would attend King
Street and then be posted to various places around the world after having been in
Beaufort. This trend gave Odgen friends in many countries that he was able to visit and
keep up with for years.
He was a 1954 graduate of Beaufort High School and went to college, only to be drafted
into the US Army shortly afterward. After basic training, he was stationed in Maine for
one winter and then deployed to West Germany, where he fell in love with the country
and the cultural and ethnic history from his mother's side. After his service, he returned
briefly to Port Royal and then left once again to complete his undergraduate degree at
Abilene Christian College (Texas) in 1965. After graduation, he returned as a science
teacher at Beaufort High School for several years before leaving again to complete a
master's degree in Marine and Biological Sciences at Florida State University in
Tallahassee. He also held several post graduate fellowships over the years, including
multiple summers spent in Turkey.
In 1975, he was successfully hired as a US Civil Service employee and qualified to
teach at the various US military base schools around the globe. His first posting was
Okinawa (1975-76). After that year, he was able to return to his beloved Germany,
where he taught various high school science courses at the Berlin American High
School from 1976-94, when the base school was closed. He is listed on the alumni web
site, Berlin Brats, as a faculty member. Returning to the family home in Port Royal, he served as a substitute teacher in the Beaufort County School system and worked at the Beaufort Marine Institute facility in Dale. He also had his own shrimp boat and was a partner in a free-lance shrimping and crabbing business, manned the counter at Port Royal Seafood for several years and worked in various capacities at Gay Seafood on St. Helena Island before finally retiring.
He held several licenses for reclamation and disposal of items dredged from the ocean
floor as a result of his shrimping activities. He loved everything about the salt water and
being in Beaufort.
Around the turn of the century, Ogden had renovated the family home in Port Royal and
sold it to Friends of Caroline Hospice to be the non-profit's headquarters. With those
funds, he built his last home on family property on Scipio Road near the Broad River,
where he spent the last 23 years of his life enjoying the sunsets, and his dogs, first
Daisy, then Sadie.
In lieu of flowers, donation may be made to King Street Church of Christ.