Dianna Marie Stidman

Dianna Marie (Lund) Stidman, 69, passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, Nov. 27, after a reoccurrence of cancer. She was surrounded by family and close friends.

A celebration of life will be held in May 2025 in Quincy, Wash., and in June 2025 in Glasgow, Mont. Specific dates and times will be posted in The Glasgow Courier and Grant County Journal.

Dianna was born on Sept. 17,1955, at the Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Ga., to Charles and Jean Lund. Childhood years were spent in Newell, S.D., Fairfield, Mont., Spokane and Ephrata, Wash. She married Garry Stidman, her Ephrata High School sweetheart, on Sept. 13, 1975. After graduating from Eastern Washington University, they moved to Hysham, Mont., where she began her teaching career, teaching general music, choir, and band for grades K-12. Later they moved to Glasgow where she taught choir and general music for the next 22 years.

In her spare time she formed the Glasgow Swing Choir, taught piano lessons, accompanied for school plays, weddings and was the organist at the First Lutheran Church. In 2003 she retired from teaching in Montana and moved back to Grant County and continued to teach general music and choir in Ephrata until her retirement in 2017. Over her long career of teaching she mentored thousands of students and loved keeping in touch with them.

In 1982 she gave birth to their daughter Sarah, who was such an inspiration to her. Over the years Sarah would join them on vacations all over the country making memories together. The love of traveling took Dianna to all 50 states and internationally with her family. In recent years, whenever possible, Dianna would visit Sarah in the Seattle area and they'd work on projects, attend concerts, operas, plays, and, of course, Seahawks games.

Dianna enjoyed many summers camping on their boat with Garry, close friends and family at Fort Peck Lake and Lake Roosevelt. She was an avid gardener and her talent showed with beautiful flowers and landscaping. She was so proud of her purple irises. She maintained a large organic vegetable garden where she and Garry loved to can and preserve vegetables and fruit.

With her loving and kind nature, in her retirement years Dianna was her mother Jean's caregiver. She'd make weekly trips to Wenatchee taking Jean to appointments, concerts, and community events. Dianna was close to her three sisters, Debbie, Sylvia, and Suzanne, and cherished each of them.

Being diagnosed with type one diabetes at the age of 12, Dianna always vowed it wouldn't get the best of her. She worked hard on a daily basis for 57 years, so that it wouldn't. And it didn't.

She is preceded in death by her father, Charles Lund; Hank Langeman; Wilford and Janis Stidman; baby boy Stidman; Rodney Hopkins; and Terry Stidman.

Dianna is survived by her husband, Garry, Quincy; daughter Sarah, Kent, Wash .; and her mother, Jean Langeman, Wenatchee, Wash. She is also survived by sisters, Debbie Stone (Bob), of Moscow, Idaho, Sylvia Carmon (Larry), of Stafford, Va. and Suzanne Johnson (Jerry), of Gig Harbor, Wash .; Uncle Dick and Aunt Barbara, of Ruther Glen, Va .; and the Swan family of South Dakota.

Dianna loved her many nieces and nephews, often shown in the pranks she'd play on them.

Dianna will be missed by all who knew and loved her.

Memorials can be made in her memory to the American Diabetes Association and the Glasgow Music Boosters.