Dianna Marie Hornback

Dianna Marie Hornback was born on March 7, 1960 to Dora and Max Miranda. She was the youngest of their three daughters with a brother 6 years older and another brother 3 years younger. Dianna grew up in a little town called Shafter and moved to an even smaller town, Buttonwillow, which she affectionately called "Butcherholler." Dianna met her husband Jerald when she began working for Vince Cropdusters. They were married at Imperial Palace in Las Vegas, November 4, 1983. This November would've been their 42nd wedding anniversary.

Dianna was fun, fun loving, and funny! Always the life of the party! She loved music and dancing! She was a big Michael Jackson and George Michael fan! She loved animals and was known to treat her beloved Golden Retrievers as her children...Rusty, Winston, Dakota, and Raleigh. She cooked for them, brought them "surprises" from every place she went, and talked to them lovingly as if they were babies.

Everyone who met her immediately liked her! She loved her home and her small town, but she also loved seeing the world! She cherished her anniversary trips to Lake Tahoe with her husband. She also enjoyed trips to Mexico with her best friend, cruises to the Caribbean and Mexico with her nieces, and then there was the cruise to Alaska just last year with her husband, sister and nieces. There were also many trips to California beaches and casinos with her sisters, nieces, and great nephews.

Dianna was kindhearted, compassionate, and generous to fault! She always gave money to the needy and never let anyone pay for lunch or dinner if she went. Her passion was truly her family. She was absolutely devoted to her family. She cared for her baby brother when he was dying of cancer, she brought her mother and father into her home when her mother's Alzheimer's became too much for her father to handle, she did everything she could for her sister and brother-in-law when her sister's Alzheimer's advanced, and she made time for her other sister by taking her to lunch on Saturdays and making daily lunchtime phone calls. To say Dianna will be missed is a huge understatement! Fortunate for those of us who have the silly nicknames she gave us; Buns of Steel, Chuck, Barney, Pioneer Woman, Bones, Big Al, Paps, and many, many more.

Dianna fought a fast and aggressive battle with ovarian cancer. It was unrelenting and furious! Then on the evening of July 25th, she told her niece, "I don't have the gumption for this." She was so brave and strong to the very end. She passed surrounded by her husband, nieces, and her best friends. Dianna had a strong belief in prayer and God. In heaven, she now joins her mother and father, Dora and Max Miranda, her brothers, Tony and Henry Miranda, her niece and nephew, Mary and Christian Franco, and brothers-in-law, Arthur Franco and Frank Lopez. She is survived by her husband, Jerald and Jerald's brother Roger and his family, her sister Rosie, her sister Charlene, her nieces, Stephanie, Patricia, Nancy, Carrie and her husband Alan, and Sarah and her husband Matthew, her nephew, Michael and his wife Randi, her great nephews, Stevie and his boyfriend Eric, Johnny, and Christian, her best friend Debbie, her husband, Carl and their children and grandchildren.