Dianne Coletta Stallman

After graduating from Spalding High School, Granville, Iowa, Dianne earned a certification in medical technology. She worked as a medical laboratory technician for about 12 years, working mainly in Denver and Houston. After several years in Houston, she changed careers and worked as an administrative assistant and office manager for a several oil-related companies while earning an associate’s degree from Houston Community College. She was hired by Exxon and worked for approximately 20 years for Exxon and Exxon-Mobile, being assigned increasingly higher responsibilities, including certifying products as being NAFTA compliant and monitoring trademarks uses. The company transferred her to Arlington, Virginia, for some years and then back to Houston, where she retired.

Dianne volunteered for many things. While in Arlington she volunteered to lay wreaths on graves at Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day, Veterans’ Day and other holidays. She enjoyed volunteering to be an embassy-greeter during the annual embassy open house days in Washington, D.C. She said that every year it allowed her to learn about and met people from another country. For her, the most meaningful volunteer activity was with Big Brothers and Sisters, through which she became close to and touched the lives of several families.

Dianne loved to travel. She visited many national parks in the US and was particularly taken with Big Bend National Park. She traveled to a long list of countries, including Mexico, Canada, Scotland, Ireland, Britain, Germany, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Spain and Turkey. She enjoyed going on cruises with friends and family and had plans for more travel. She was a voracious reader. Her house filled up with books and every year she would donate boxes of books to libraries and other organizations.

Dianne is preceded in death by her parents Clarence and Catherine Stallmann and her sisters: Germaine Schmit, Mary Jane Stallmann and Alice Crayton. She is survived by her siblings: Joan Klein, John Stallmann, Marlene Pape, Joyce Holles, David Stallmann, Judy Stallmann, Karen Dagel-Whitham, Steve Stallmann, Tom Stallmann, Brenda Stallmann and Nick Stallmann. She is also survived by brothers- and sisters-in-law, many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews.

A family memorial service will be held at a later date.

If you wish to remember her with a donation, please send it to the Multiple Sclerosis Society or Big Brothers and Sisters, whose work is important to her.

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