Diana was born on January 10, 1951, to Pete and Rosemary DiMaggio, both of whom preceded her in death. She was also predeceased by her son Keenan, her brother Mike, and her beloved husband, Larry Taylor, and is survived by her elder brother, Peter, and her son, Darius.
Diana was born at Hickam AFB Hawaii, and was raised in the Honolulu area in an Air Force family, where she developed a lifelong love of swimming in the ocean. She married and had two children in her twenties, and after ending her first marriage, she graduated from Southwestern University School of Law. Many of her classmates were amazed at Diana's drive, navigating the intensity of her studies while raising two sons.
Diana went on to build a distinguished legal career, practicing in both the public sector and as a general practitioner in Banning, California. In her free time, she sang in a choir and enjoyed snorkeling. Her relationship with God was a cornerstone of her life.
Diana faced many struggles including battling Hodgkin's cancer in her early thirties, the death of her youngest son, Keenan, in her forties, and the loss of her home to a wildfire in her fifties. Despite these tragedies, she continued fighting to help those around her, both as a lawyer and as an activist, working on projects to help rehabilitate incarcerated men, and in her latter years helping men heal from trauma through her book, “An Extraordinary Ordinary Man”, which chronicled her relationship with her late husband, Larry.
Throughout her life, she carried herself with strength and independence, and leaves behind memories in the many people who she touched.
