Ozzie Shaw, the father of the Linn County Parks System, died on Dec. 29.
“Ozzie, literally, he is known as the father of the county parks system,” said county Parks Director Brian Carroll. In 1959, Shaw went to the Board of Commissioners and asked to create a county parks system.
As Carroll understands it, one of the commissioners pulled a $5 or $10 bill from his pocket, handed it to Shaw and told him to…