OBITUARY: Deborah Joan (Wemmer) Diamond, 1957-2004, Worth Co., Iowa




                           Deborah Joan Diamond

Funeral services for Deborah Joan Diamond, age 47, was Saturday at
the Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, Northwood, Iowa, with Rev. Allan
J. Stoa officiating. Inurnment will take place at a later date.

She died at her home on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2004.  Schroeder & Sites
Funeral Home, Northwood, was in charge of arrangements.

Debby was born Jan. 21, 1957, in Sparta, Wisconsin, the daughter of
James and Mooneen Wemmer. Debby attended grade school in Sparta, and
after her father's death in 1969 she moved to Minneapolis and graduated
from Bloomington Kennedy High School in 1975. She attended Normandale
College and graduated with an associates' degree in accounting in 1977.

She went to work for the U.S. Immigration Department at Fort Snelling,
in Minneapolis, where she was a department supervisor. There she
received many awards for outstanding service, and wonderful communication
skills, something she was known for.

In 1979 she met Tony Diamond and on Oct. 3, 1981 they were married in
Ojibwa, Wisconsin, at the cabin of Deborah's mother and step-father
Bernard Waite. Deborah and Tony then made their home in Minneapolis.
There they had two children, Stephanie and Michael. In 1992 they moved
to Northwood.

Debby was loving mother and wife. She loved to help people and for
several years she was a volunteer at Northwood-Kensett Schools. She
later utilized her skills as an entrepreneur and started a lawn-mowing
business, which catered to mainly seniors. During this time, she
developed a great empathy for elderly, and she thoroughly enjoyed
her job at the Lutheran Retirement Home. She then worked as the office
manager for Pam Little, LISW, and she deeply enjoyed the contact she
had with clients.

She was preceded in death by her father, James; and is survived by
her two children, Stephanie and Michael; her husband, Tony; her
mother, Mooneen and her step-father Bernie; two sisters, Judy and
Kathy; two nieces, Wendy and Heather; and three nephews, Aaron, Tom
and Tyler.


  Copyright 2004, K.L. Kittleson