Leonard M. Diana

1923 - 2011

Leonard M. Diana left this world Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011, after a long hospitalization. Memorial service: 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, at St. Alban's Church, 911 S. Davis, Arlington. Memorials: In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth. Leonard served his country as a member of the 103rd Infantry Division during World War II in the European theater. He graduated from Georgia Tech with a BS in physics in 1948 and then received his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh in 1953. He taught and did active research in physics at the University of Texas at Arlington from 1965 until retirement as professor emeritus in January 1995. He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Survivors: His wife of 30 years, Dorothy Lynn Brooks; children, Leonard and wife, Laura, of Garden City, N.Y., Susan Rumsey and husband, Michael, of Richardson and Lawrence and wife, Danae, of Riviera; stepdaughter, Ginna Walters and husband, Gary, of Arlington; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.