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Photo courtesy Lee Bird REMEMBRANCES: Diana Bird is most recently remembered in her familiar turban. This picture was taken in December shortly before she succumbed to cancer on Jan. 30.
you’re expected to say.” Sharon Kilpatrick spoke about the Friends Meetings they used to attend, and Rae Hasse spoke of the loan that Diana extended and then forgave to get her store going some years ago.
Some spoke of Diana Bird as a “naturally empathetic” human being who, even though suffering from her own cancer, was always more interested in how others were doing.
Joyce Abell observed that when most of us die, “we leave a little hole in the community. I think most of us would agree that Diana has left a big hole.”
A musical tribute by musician and composer Paul Reisler and his wife, Julie Portman, concluded the service.
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