July 16, 1930 – February 22, 2021
Diana Baldwin Dunnan was the third daughter of Donald Robinson Baldwin and Winifred Barrett Baldwin of South Orange, New Jersey, Cape Neddick, Maine, and Charleston, South Carolina. Donald Baldwin was the Senior Partner of Griggs, Baldwin, and Baldwin, a firm founded by his father and great-uncle with Governor Griggs at One Wall Street in New York City. He was also a successful investor and generous philanthropist, serving for many years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, his father and uncle having founded the undergraduate college. Winifred Baldwin was a talented artist and active philanthropist in her own right with a particular interest in Drew, hospitals, and nursing.
Diana married Weaver White Dunnan on February 14, 1953, and was predeceased by her husband in 2010. Supported by his wife, Weaver was a successful attorney specializing in corporate tax at Covington and Burling, where he became a senior partner and member of the Management Committee.
A gifted gardener and devoted mother and grandmother, Diana continued her parents’ commitment to philanthropy serving as the Head Docent of the National Gallery of Art when she was a young mother in the 1960’s, volunteering in several capacities at St. Albans School, and supporting secondary and collegiate education, environmental causes, and hospitals financially, most notably York Hospital in York, Maine. She was for many years the President of the Baldwin Foundation, continuing the charitable legacy of her parents. She was a member of the Junior League of Greater Washington, Chevy Chase Club, and the Sulgrave Club, and a 1951 graduate of Wheaton College, Phi Beta Kappa, in Norton, Massachusetts.
Diana is survived by five children: Bruce Baldwin Dunnan, married to Wendy Wagner, of Palm Beach, Florida; Douglas Morgan Dunnan, married to Calvine Bowen, of Rye, New York; the Rev. Dr. Donald Stuart Dunnan of Hagerstown, Maryland; Winifred Dunnan Faust, married to Thomas, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, and John McMillan Dunnan, married to Meredith Peters, of Charleston, South Carolina.
She is also survived by 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her sisters Patricia Baldwin Whipple in 1982 and Joan Thurber Baldwin in 1990, and is survived by her niece Joan Whipple Trimble, her 4 children and 4 grandchildren.
Because of COVID restrictions, a public memorial service and family burial will be held this summer at St. Peter’s-By-the-Sea in Cape Neddick, Maine, her son Stuart officiating.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the charity of your choice.
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