Diana Humfeld

Diana Lee Humfeld “Dee”

born February 22, 1947 died November 30, 2020

Beautiful and loving wife to her husband George of 50 years, mother to three boys Rob (Sarah), Kyle (Tiffany) and Dan (Karen) who with their wives and five grandchildren and her brother Chuck (Cherie) Hunter survive her.  Dee was born in Los Angeles and grew up moving back and forth between southern California and southern Oregon.  She considered Grants Pass, Oregon, where she attended Grants Pass High School, to be “back home”.  She earned bachelor's degree in mathematics and secondary education in 1969 at Grove City College in Pennsylvania.  The following year she studied graduate level mathematics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where she and George first met.  They were married on February 14, 1970.  Later they moved to Virginia, in the suburbs of Washington, DC.  Except for a two-year stay in Monterey, CA, they lived in Virginia until May 2010, when they moved to Grand Junction, CO.  Her final years in Virginia, she battled breast cancer and had been cancer-free for ten years at the time of her death.

While in Virginia, Dee earned a Master's Degree in Special Education-Gifted at George Mason University, worked several part time jobs and served 27 years as a high school mathematics teacher, teaching every math subject offered.  The highlight of her career was the many years that she served as a grader of AP Calculus exams.  Her joys in Virginia included raising her three boys and seeing them all happily married, her 40x40 vegetable garden, serving on the missions committee at Reston Bible Church, and traveling with George and the boys in campers and timeshares.  They visited coast to coast and across western Canada.

Once in Colorado, Dee became a master gardener, attended Community Bible Study, was active at Redlands Community Church, and served actively with the GJ Symphony Guild.  She and George continued to travel.  In October 2019 she marched in the reunion parade with the class of 1969 at Grove City College and visited friends and relatives in the mid-Atlantic region.  Then early in 2020 they visited relatives in southern California.

Dee was an excellent cook and seamstress throughout her adult life as well as an avid card and board game player and jigsaw puzzle enthusiast.

She played violin and viola in High School and her love of music rubbed off on her children, all of whom became brass players.  During their growing up years the family would often enjoy musicals at a local dinner theater.  Although she claimed she could only "make a joyful noise", the music of her life are missed by the many who knew her.

Family requests NO flowers!!