Diane Ivins

Diane Ivins

AGE: 86 • formerly of Morristown

Diane Delmonico Ivins died Monday, September 22, 2014 at Weinberg Campus in Getzville at age 86, after an extended illness. Born Diane Crist Delmonico on July 18, 1928 in Morristown, NJ she was the youngest of three children born to Charles Crist Delmonico II and Edith Macculloch Fanshawe of that town. Mrs. Ivins was the 3rd great grand niece of Peter and John Delmonico, the founders of the eponymous named restaurant and catering business, which was patronized by New York's social elite from 1827 until its closing in 1923. She was graduated from the Peck School in Morristown, Kent Place School in Summit, and Bradford College in Haverhill, MA. A life-long educator by profession and disposition, Mrs. Ivins began her teaching career at the Peck School. She married Clinton Fox Ivins Jr. in April, 1955 in Morristown and lived in Plainfield, Morristown, and Huntington, LI before moving with her husband and young family to Buffalo in 1962. After many years of teaching at the Elmwood Franklin School, she retired in 1978, after which her activities centered on her family, dogs, and her hobbies of genealogy, tennis, bridge, and gardening. A past president of the Garrett Club and a fifty-year resident of Lexington Avenue, she and her husband moved to Weinberg Campus in 2012.

Mrs. Ivins was predeceased by her devoted husband, Clinton Fox Ivins, Jr.; and her siblings Shirley G. Delmonico and Charles C. Delmonico, III. She is survived by sons, Clinton F. Ivins III (Debora) and DeWitt C. Ivins (Blair); sister-in-law, Patricia I. Moody; grandchildren, Laura, Julia, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Katherine; and dear friend, Colleen Kern-Haefner.

Mrs. Ivins will be interred with her husband in Evergreen Cemetery in Morristown. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Elmwood Franklin School, 104 New Amsterdam Ave, Buffalo, NY 14216.