Larry and Family:

Sorry to hear of Diane's passing.  I express my family's sincere sympathies to your family. 

 While we never got together as adults, David & Diane were my favorite cousins.  We always enjoyed our visits when Uncle Frank and Aunt Geraldine would come up from Port Huron, or back from Grand Rapids to visit Grandpa Chivers in Auburn.  Also, the visits by the Schmidt family (Elmer & Gladys) to their house in Grand Rapids was the highpoint of our summers.  We would play with David & Diane and enjoy life.  Also enjoyed Aunt Geraldine's cooking.  She went out of the way to feed us fancy baked goods.  She would allow us to eat as much as we wanted - much to our mother's chagrin.  I still have one of her favorite recipes in the recipe box today.  

Also, I am amazed at how much the later life photos of Diane resemble my sister Rosalie.  They could be twin sisters.  

Times and distances have separated us.  I am sad about that.

Your family is in our prayers.  As it states so aptly states in the video (John 11: 25 & 26) we will all be in heaven together someday.

John Wm. Schmidt
Diane's cousin
Springfield, VA

PS:  I am in the black and white photo of the Chivers family.  I am the small boy in my father's (Elmer) arms. Just as a point of reference Diane was 5 years older that I am.

Left to Right top row:
Our Grandpa:  George William Chivers  (my best buddy as a child) Our Grandma:  Rosie Chivers (I only vaguely remember her before her death) My Uncle Frank (My mother's brother)(Diane's Father) My Aunt Geraldine (Uncle Frank's wife)(Diane's Mother) My Mother (Diane's aunt): Gladys (Chivers) Schmidt Holding My Sister (Diane's cousin): Rosalie Ann Schmidt My Father (Gladys' husband)(Diane's uncle):  J. Elmer Schmidt Holding Me

Left to Right bottom row:
My cousin:  Diane
My cousin:  David Chivers

SOME TRIVIA:
The photo was taken (in all likelihood - based on how we are all posed - by my father's camera) probably in the summer of 1949, in my Grandfather's back yard in Auburn, MI.  My mother and father's (Now Rosalie and John Robert Schmidt's) house would be built just out of frame on the right side of photo some 100 feet to the west.  That is where Rosalie, my brothers, and I grew up.  My father's childhood home was located about 400 feet to the south in the direction between Grandpa's and Grandma's shoulders in this photo. 

Only 3 of us are now alive.

Diane and I were also first cousins as our moms were sisters.
Joan Martin-Austin.

Diane and I were close childhood friends.  She was Maid of Honor at my wedding in 1964.

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Diane Kathleen Gibson

20 January, 1942 – 24 December, 2019

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