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Deborah Dyte
August 14, 2025
Stan, thinking of you in this sorrowful time. My deepest condolences. Deborah
Linda Acosta
August 3, 2025
I met Diane and Stan in Greece in the early 70's where they were stationed when Stan was in the AirForce. I was in my early 20's and had met another young serviceman. Diane was the wise," older" married lady ( only 5 years my senior) whom I would go to for relationship advice! She was so calm and reassuring and positive and funny! My relationship with the young man did not develop much further, but Diane and Stan's certainly did. I had the opportunity to see them on one trip to Vegas and on their holiday here in Vancouver, and,of course, keep in touch thru the post and calls. I will treasure that contact forever. Goodbye ,my friend.
( The photo above is dated June 1974, so I think was taken in Greece)
Kaye Moore
July 29, 2025
Diane was a wonderful person who always made me laugh. I worked with Stan at Spokane and also Okinawa and got to see Diane on numerous occasions at our house, their house and office functions. She loved the slot machines (except when they took her money), and loved her family. She will be missed.
Bruce neil sparks jr
July 21, 2025
My aunt DD is and was the best women ive ever know. DD is a women who should be modeled by all women . The love and respect and strength of her was like no other women ive known . She will be missed and it brings me great joy to know she is with grandma barbie and the family in heaven . If your reading this DD I miss and love you alot and I wish we could had played one last game of scrabble . Rest easy my dear aunt I will see you some day .
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Tyler Allred
July 17, 2025
Grandma,
The joy I´ve had the last 19 years with you is something I wouldn´t give for the world. You truly were an angel that was wonderfully placed into my life to be my grandmother. I always loved staying at your house while mom had to work. Even when I could drive myself around I still loved stopping by the house to say hey and see how you were doing. I am so grateful for EVERYTHING you did for me and the family. Because for you family always came first. Love and miss you more than ever. Love you grandma .
Julie Tognoni
July 16, 2025
Diane is truly a special person. There is no one more warm, positive and loving than her. I had the opportunity, on many occasions, to spend the holidays with Jen and her family. Because I was so far away from my own family it was such a treat for me Dean and Gianna to always be included for Christmas dinner. Diane was always full of inspiration, lots of laughs, and incredible kindness. She had a gift that made you feel like anything was possible. For me, Diane made the holidays feel like I was home.
Here is one of the photos we took during the holidays. Diane will truly be missed and always hold a special place in our hearts.,
Love Julie, Dino, and Gianna
Norma Ybarra
July 15, 2025
Diana made a lasting impression on so many people. Describing her is easy.... "Wonder Woman". Her spunky personality, courage, fearlessness, intelligence, and outspoken nature. She embraced life and cherished her family above all else. She truly made the world a better place. I am so blessed that she came into my life.
Gloria Morkert
July 14, 2025
I first met Diane at Kadena AB on Okinawa. She was always very kind. I remember dinner at their house and I remember she and Stan stood as proxy Godparents for my daughter. Through the years, we were able to stop in Las Vegas once on the way to California. Again, Diane was generous and kind. I can´t say enough about her. She definitely had an impact on my life. May she rest in peace.
Daniel E. Long
July 13, 2025
So sorry to hear about the recent passing. I will always remember the
special way that Stan and Diane welcomed me into their home as a
single, young, service man, away from home. It was nice to feel I had a
family there to be with. Diane always made me feel special and was
happy to see me when I stopped by.
Elena and Ralph
July 13, 2025
It was a joy every time we got together with Diane and Stan. Diane was always so happy and brightened a room when she walked in. It broke our hearts to see her go. She was witty and funny and we loved her so much.
Ralph & Elena
July 13, 2025
Melissa Harris
July 11, 2025
To know Diane was truly to love her. I feel so fortunate that our paths crossed many years ago in the puzzle aisle at Hobby Lobby-an ordinary moment that became the start of a beautiful friendship. Since then, we´ve shared laughter, puzzles, and genuine connection. Diane had a way of making time spent together feel meaningful and joyful.
I was honored to be at her service, surrounded by those who loved her so deeply, remembering the incredible woman she was. Over the last few months, I´ve also had the privilege of getting to know her family a bit more, and I feel incredibly lucky to have shared in their warmth and love.
I miss you deeply, pretty lady. Your kindness, your sparkle, and your friendship will forever hold a special place in my heart.
With love and gratitude, Melissa
Torene
July 10, 2025
Four of us cousin´s grew up together in Yuma AZ. I have wonderful memories of playing with Barbara, Diane (DeeDee is what a lot of us called her) and my younger sister Mitzi while our single mothers were working to support us.
We all married young and even though we eventually moved to different states we still talked and were close to each other´s hearts, so much so that unknowingly we had named some of our children the same or similar names. DeeDee named her oldest son Jeff and I had named my youngest son Jeff, DeeDee had named her daughter Jennifer and my youngest granddaughter´s name is also Jennifer. Also Barbara named her oldest son Fred and I had named my only daughter Fredi.
Over the years we had many family get togethers and I will always have those very special memories of DeeDee.
With love your cousin Torene
Stan
July 9, 2025
Diane and her sister Barbara enjoying bingo.
Teresa Sparks
July 6, 2025
I was married to Aunt DD's nephew, Bruce, for 21 years until he sadly passed away in 2016. From the day we met, she treated me like a niece, even after my husband´s passing. She was always cheerful and encouraging, going out of her way to help in any way she could.
I know she cherished spending time with family and friends because she understood the value of those moments. I received many of her treasured "hand-me-down" items as she always thought of me, which I appreciated. Although we weren´t as close as I would have liked, due to my own busy life, I will miss her especially her voice on the other side of the phone singing Happy Birthday to me alongside of her husband Stan every year. And having fun at Bingo on Mothers day. She was a very energetic woman who always put others first.
I will miss her dearly, and I pray for the family to find comfort in knowing that she will be reunited with all who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior.
Mitzi Burton
July 6, 2025
Diane and I grew up in Yuma Arizona along with her sister Barbara and my sister Torene. I have many fond memories of those years together.
We remained friends throughout the years seeing each other and talking on the phone.
Diane was a generous, and loving person, everyone who knew her loved her. She will be greatly missed.
Cousin Mitzi
Jennifer Allred
July 6, 2025
It is still hard for me to write down my thoughts about my wonderful Mother through my tears. Just like her, I cry often. She was the BEST person I have ever known and the soul of our family. Losing her has left a huge hole in my heart. I try every day to think of her and do all the things she has taught me. I miss her so much but am so thankful she is no longer suffering in pain. Even in her death, she has made our family closer. I miss you so much Mom. Rest, you deserve it.
Charleen Turner
July 5, 2025
Dear Diane, -my dear sister-in-law,
Even from afar, you were always this generous soul: always generous with your love for your family and friends. We would have these 3-way phone conversations with Sta, my brother, on the phone, and you adding quips and funny anecdotal comments. You both traveled the world and lived in exotic places as, one, loving unit making friends where ever you went. How wonderful that you and my brother had each other for 54 years. Love, Charleen. (Charleen Turner)
Ronald Turrell
July 5, 2025
Diana was my cousin we grew up in Yuma,Arizona together. Yuma back then in the 1950 thru sixties was very small town. She taught me how to swim. She was my babysitter as I grew up. Lots of found memories of her, sister Barbara, and her mother Aunt Vivian. I think Diane really found happiness when she met Stan and married him. Lost touch with her for years but got reunited with her after she moved to Las Vegas. All my memories are joy and happiness and love. She loved her family and I know her family loved her. She´s in haven, as I say respectfully she made the cut.
With love your cousin Ronald Turrell
Isabel Potter
July 5, 2025
We met in Okinawa and become family . What a wonderful time we had. To this day I can hear her say Miss Isabel what you doing??LOL Working in the Deli or at Bingo she was always had a smile.. Miss You
Tom Skowron
July 4, 2025
My wife and I have known Stan since we were kids in Buffalo NY. We were so sorry to hear of Diane´s passing. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this time of your loss.
Tom & Thea Skowron
Kevin Smagh
July 4, 2025
Dear Stan and Family - We remember Diana from our time with you in Okinawa, at Kadena Air Base, where our families lived. She was warm and welcoming and your home was a place of comfort thanks to you both, due to your support and friendship. We are missing Diana and loved learning updates each Christmas via the Walkowski newsletter. We remember Diana fondly, and sorry for her loss.
Kevin and Loretta Smagh
Atlanta
JOE SEGAL
July 4, 2025
Diane loved life and she wanted everyone around her to feel that joy, too. She never met a stranger. She was a friend to everyone, and she was the most giving person I have ever met. We have so many wonderful memories of her. She will be dearly missed.
Priscilla Howell
July 4, 2025
To the Walkowski and Allred families -
We are so sorry for your loss. The service was absolutely beautiful and so fitting for the light Diane shined in the world. We will miss her beautiful smile and the kindness she brought to others everywhere she went. We were blessed to see first hand how incredible she was in her roles as mom, wife, and grandma ... and amazing human being overall. Most of all, our hearts ache knowing that you will feel the daily hole left by her departure. It brings us so much peace, however, to know you will all be together again in the future and that she is able to be with her son in the meantime.
We are so grateful that our families connected so many years ago and we lovingly recall memories through the years. Your (very tidy!!) home overflowed with love and she made everyone feel so welcome.
Sending you all much love and thanking God for the gift of Diane in this world.
Love, Priscilla, Lauren, and Maddie
Howie Phillips
July 4, 2025
DeeDee was Always making sure everyone around her was comfortable and fed! I remember her laughing from the kitchen playing scrabble with Debby. My entire family´s lives were made so much better by DeeDee. Her outlook on life and the people around her made her company not just enjoyable but a true blessing!
Chris Elaine
July 4, 2025
Deepest sympathy to all who knew and loved Diane. She was a remarkable sister-in-law. I learned a lot from her and will always keep her in my thoughts.
Kathryn Allred
July 4, 2025
My earliest memory of playing cards was doing so with Grandma. Everyone sat around the dining table, laughing at some quip she had just made. Meanwhile, I struggled to hold all my cards in one hand like the adults, and trying desperately to learn the game. Grandma sat next to me, teaching me when I should go down, or the right time to play a wild card. Of course, we were playing railroad rummy, and Grandma was winning that game (much to my Great Aunt Barb´s chagrin). At the time I was a lost cause; bankrupt in terms of pennies. But losing didn´t matter to me in that game as it normally does, because Grandma always made it fun, won or lost. She was the very best of us; kind, generous, and warm hearted. Grandma had one of those souls, the kind where you always feel welcome and at home in her presence. I miss her every day.
Monica Abrego
July 3, 2025
Hi I am Diana's Great Niece My Aunt wa the most amazing woman she loved everyone and she was one of the most respectful people I new She will be loved and missed always !!! I love you Aunt Dede
Keri Gassett
July 3, 2025
"Hey Lady" rings in my ears EVERY time I think of my very special friend Diana, as that was how she always greeted me! We met Stan & Diana in Spokane when we moved across the driveway from them, in 1981! What a very special friend! She cleaned my house before I came home from the hospital with our twin girls, in 1983; what a wonderful surprise! We crisscrossed the globe over the years but stayed in contact. Diana and Stan were stationed in Okinawa when we were stationed in Seoul, Korea; they came to Seoul to spend Thanksgiving with our family where Diana taught me the ropes of making homemade dressing; I do this her way every year now!
I want to thank Jen for helping Diana make my last phone call with her on Mother´s Day. I cherish that! Diana was very weak and very tired but she insisted on calling friends. I feel SO lucky to have had that opportunity. I think of you often and miss you terribly, but I will see you again!
Keri & Deke
Kathleen Allred
July 3, 2025
Kathleen Allred
July 3, 2025
My husband´s mother, Diana, gave him the gift of charity. She was the most giving person I have known, and was kind to all. To know her was truly to love her. She cherished her family and wanted everyone to be and do well. An avid player of card games and a puzzle enthusiast, the kids loved spending time with her. She taught them the finer points of Bingo and took them on adventures. It is still too much to think of her as gone, as she was the epicenter of the family. I miss her; I miss the idea of her. She is without pain and waiting for us all. Till then... .
Kathleen Allred
July 3, 2025
Tina Vert
July 3, 2025
I became Stan And Diane's daughter-in-law when I married their son Jason Stanley Walkowski. I had the best in-laws. Any girl could ask for it. Saddens me to hear that Mirs. Diane passed away. She was the most sweetest loving woman ever. I was truly blessed to have a mother-in-law like her, she always made me feel special. Ev en after Jason's passing 2009
Stan Diane and Ialways kept in contact. But even thought it sadden me, She has left this earth. It makes me happy that she's has been reunited and probably up there in heaven dancing and having a great time with my very first love of my life, her baby boy Jason Walkowski.
George M.Walkowski
July 3, 2025
My Sister in law was just like a sister or Mother figure to me. She loved life and was always concerned about her family. I had the honer of living with Dee-Dee, my coffee buddy when Stan and Diane had a beautiful house right on Mexico Beach! She would cook nutritious meals every night! I have a crystal clear memory of Dee-Dee, Sta and myself siting on the beach at Sunset Bay talking about life. It was the first time I felt completely free to say anything I had on my mind. She always spoke the truth, and was always up for new challenges! What a woman! My loving sister in law...Dee-Dee Walkowski!
David & Cherie Allen
July 3, 2025
Cherie & I met Diane & Stan while assigned to Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan in 1987. That meeting & friendship has been pure joy ever since. To be in the presence of Diane´s vibrant personality was truly a gift that kept us smiling, laughing and left us feeling better; like medicine for the soul. She was a fantastic friend, a loving mother & undoubtedly Stan´s best friend & devoted wife. We will forever cherish the memories of times spent with Diane. Her joyful spirit is an indelible bright spot within us & we´re forever grateful to have been blessed to know her through these nearly 38+ years of friendship. Our 3 daughters also fondly recall the wonderful times spent with Diane & Stan; their smiles, their laughter & Diane´s tasty vegetarian lasagna!!
May God continue to bless Stan; Jennifer & Jeffrey with comfort & strength today & every day. We´re most thankful to have known her & call her friend.
David & Cherie Allen (FL)
Richard Folga
July 3, 2025
As one of Stan´s oldest and close friends forever since 2nd grade, your family has my deepest sympathies. You are in my thoughts and prayers. May Diana rest in peace and know she is in a better place.
Ian Hejl
July 3, 2025
Auntie Diane was always warm, welcoming, and loving to myself and my family. I love playing rummy with her and spending the most amount of time with her as I could. I love you always auntie Dianne
Allen Glaug
July 3, 2025
I met Diane through Stan who were my neighbors back in Centerville, Ohio and they were the perfect neighbors. Diane was a known nonsense. Kind of person spoke her mind which I loved. But she loved her family and her husband and I admired what they had and I was sad when they left to move to California. I really miss them. I´m sending prayers to Stan and all of the family for such a loss and I wish I would´ve had the time to see her and Stan when I was traveling back West in early November but unfortunately, I got Covid. Thanks California.
God bless all of the family especially Stan. Wish I could be there to give you hug buddy.
Tina Eszlinger
July 3, 2025
I met you through my sister, Diana was a sweet, very hospitable, kind and loving lady. She made me laugh at her attention to everyone´s needs no matter what and her love for Stan You´re a beautiful loving sweet selfless lady. So glad I got to meet you, you were an important part of my sisters life in her beginning military life in Japan. I feel like I knew you forever. Rest in peace you were very loved by many . Prayers to all . Tina
Debby Phillips
July 2, 2025
Diane took me under her wing when we meet in Okinawa Japan. Later Stan and Diane became god parents to our two sons. Her and I played scrabble til late night. She´d roll her hair while I took my turn. They treated us as family, which we are forever grateful as we were two young kids in a foreign country with small children and had only the Walkowski family, they taught us, loved us and hung out with us. Dee Dee taught me to be a good house keeper and to GAMBLE!!! lol. We have remained "their real friends" ever since.
Deedee was one of a kind and she will be terribly missed. We love you. Rest in peace sweet lady.
Steven and Violy Hejl
June 30, 2025
My wife (Violy) and I first met Diane while in Okinawa working at the deli and from there we formed an unbreakable friendship for over 30 years. We kept in touch with Diane and Stan though all our and their moves. We would go and visit them in California and in Las Vegas numerous times through the years. We would plan vacations and outings at various locations.
Two of the most memorable vacations we went on together were to Honolulu where we stayed at a beach cabin on the beach at Barbers Point where we enjoyed walking the beach and seeing sea turtles: Diane LOVED them. While we were in Honolulu we took her and Stan to Hanauma Bay state park, where I took her snorkeling for her first time, boy she really loved seeing the fish and other sea animals. We traveled all over the Island! Stan remarks "I love going on vacations with the Hejl's, because all we have to do is show-up and go on all of the excursions you guys have planned!"
We invited them to come with us on vacation to the Big Island of Hawaii where we stayed in a cabin on Kilauea Military Camp. From there we drove the all over the Island. Just a couple of the highlights we Mauna Kea and Hilo where the ladies did what they love (shopping!).
She was a hoot to hang out with either at the house, on vacations or at the Casino! She was my gambling/bingo buddy. Every time we would visit Vegas, she and I would go to the casino and have a great time! One of the times we went to the casino I kept her out until 4am, I was chastised by Stan for that night! LOL
Diane was a very kind hearted person. She would give to others, even total strangers, without even thinking of herself. One time she made up a bunch of toiletry bags and gave them away to the homeless she would see on the street corners. She also would send gifts to Violy's sister in the Philippines, who she had never met in person, and would donate her clothing to us when we would send care boxes to Violy's family which they would use or distribute to the poorest of the poor where they live.
She was one of the kindest and funniest people I have ever met. I am still having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that I will never see her in person until we reunite again in Heaven (hopefully, fingers crossed). She was a very dear friend. Her face would light up when we would meet wherever it may have been and cry when we had to leave for home. We visited several times during her fight with the horrible disease. Even then, her face would light up even though she was not feeling well! She would break out the cards so we could play several rounds of Railroad Rummy! A game her Aunt Betty invented. She won most of the time: I think she cheated! But we always had a great time when we were together. The last time we were able to visit her she PROMISED she would always watch over us and I am sure she is.
Diane will be truly missed by all of us! But we will keep her in our prayers and our memories forever. Miss Diane we Love You and please keep a seat open for me at the Bingo room in Heaven.
Anthony Rapp
June 30, 2025
We met Diane & Stan in Athens, Greece circa 1973. She was my soon-to-be wife´s 1st encounter with an American woman. Diane opened her home and her heart to us and we spent many a night around the kitchen table drinking coffee and talking. This was remarkable because my wife didn´t speak English! Love and compassion can truly overcome even language barriers. Something we will have forever is Diane´s Thanksgiving dressing recipe. We continue to use this recipe for over 50 years in our homes throughout the US, Europe, and the Middle East. Thanks Diane for your love & friendship.
Stan Walkowski
June 19, 2025
My Dear Diane, I loved you since I first met you. You have always been the better part of me. Our time together was simply wonderful. You were, and still are the perfect wife, mother, grandmother, and friend. You will be missed until the end of time. I will carry on and do the things that were important to you like making the bed first thing in the morning, never leaving dishes in the sink overnight, and caring for the dog. I am sad but also rejoice that you are now reunited with our son as well as your mother and two sisters. Someday, when it's my turn, I will join you. I will be the guy with the biggest smile on my face. Love always, Stan.
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