One True Love.

I heard it once in an old 60’s song – “We are but a moment’s sunlight fading in the grass.” That may be true, but that moment of sunlight can light up your whole life, and that moment can last for eternity.

And so it is that Diana lit up my life. She was my confidant, my soul mate, my lover. All those names are about what we were to each other. We were a team, a life-long couple, a true partnership in every respect. Together we were the center of our world and the core for our family. Now Diana and I are separated physically and the center is no more, but I believe we are still joined. The bond of our true love will always live on in what ever our plane of existence for eternity. .

Diana Lee Moze was born on November 29^th, 1947 to Joseph Frank Moze and Eva Lorraine Aigner in Indianapolis, IN. She was an only child and early on her family moved quite often. They settled in a new subdivision called Eagledale in northwest Indianapolis, and this is where I met her in our senior year of high school. For me, I will always remember that very sweet, shy and fun-loving girl, who was just short of her 17^th birthday. Her brown eyes would sparkle, and her smile would light up a room. Her dimples charmed me, and, oh, her kiss. Her kiss is still on my list of the best things in my life.

I will always remember the innocence and bravery she showed, when she boldly left her parents in 1967 and followed me into the Army. Traveling around from base to base, living on a privates salary in 1960’s LA. We agreed that it was one of the best times of our lives. I remember her as my anchor and hope through the long separation of the Vietnam war.

I remember her as the loving mother, who nurtured her baby daughter even while her own mother lingered in a coma. Her strength and perseverance, while holding it together for her father and for me, maintaining our home and keeping our true love alive.

Diana was always an avid reader, as all of scores of books we acquired over the years will attest. She was a dedicated animal lover and we always have had pets in our home throughout our lives together. She always said that Blaze, our big magnificent black lab, was really her first born baby since he had three years seniority on Denise. Later, when she was going through her ‘bird’ period, she somehow (with the help of Denise) acquired five assorted cockatiels and parakeets, and an injured wild dove that lived for 10 years in the house. In those days, cages were all over this very room, and the calls, whistles and noises of the feathered critters filled the air. But wait, this wasn’t enough. She wanted to feed all of the wild birds and squirrels out there. I would tell her “Dear, there isn’t enough seed in the world”, but she continued to attempt to feed them all. And she came to love cats through Taffy, another addition to our family, courtesy of Denise. I know now that Diana is reunited with all her beloved critters. She believed this would come to be true in the next world, and I know she is happy to be taking care of all of them again.

Taking care of others was a theme throughout Diana’s life. She took care of Denise, she took care of me, she took care of her animals, and when Chris & Ashley came along, she too care of them too. She looked after both of them as babies, right in this room. She was their Nana and I was their Ba, still am as a matter of fact. Diana nurtured them, taught them, read to them, played games with them, changed their diapers, and helped them with school.

If there is one theme to sum up Diana’s beautiful life, it surely is her belief in “true love”. She loved me and her family as no other can possibly do. And so it is that we now must go on without her. It will be difficult, and the pain will linger, but I know that I am the luckiest man alive to have known her, to have made my life with her, but mostly that we shared that priceless essence. I have loved her with all my heart. But then, she has always had my heart from that moment in Eagledale when I first saw her. She always will be my “One True Love”. My darling Diana, all my love forever. Dave.