Longtime O.C. Sportswriter Osterman Dies
David Osterman, longtime high school reporter at the Orange County Register, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 48.
Osterman covered high school sports for the Register for the last 24 years.
He drove himself to the hospital two weeks ago after apparently suffering a minor heart attack. On Oct. 28, he underwent heart bypass surgery at Anaheim Memorial Medical Center.
Register colleagues said he was transported this week to UCLA Medical Center, where he died about 3 p.m. Tuesday from cardiac arrest.
Osterman spent most of his career covering the county’s high school sports, first at the now-defunct Orange City News, later as sports editor of the La Habra Star-Progress, and then the Register beginning in 1975.
Funeral services are pending.
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