Diana Lynn Bird

Diana Lynn was a sweet, gentle, loving child.  She was very affectionate, always ready for kisses and hugs.  In her short life, Diana got to go to Disneyland and Knotts Berry Farm a couple of times.  She got to play at the beach by the Pacific Ocean.  At home, Diana had kittens and puppies, and then, a baby sister.  She loved her little sister very much.  Diana was also fond of story books and her toys, especially her pop beads and Lego blocks.

  In 1965 Diana got to travel across country to Freeport, IL to meet her aunt Judy and her grandparents.  While there she got to go to her grandpa's picnic and ride the ponies.  When the ride was over, she would cry because she didn't want to get off; so she stayed on for about six rides and then was ready for a long nap!

The following year, her aunt Judy and grandma Ellie came to California to visit her and her family.  They stayed for a week, and Diana came to love her aunt Judy very much. 

A few months later Diana's baby sister was born, and Diana became a caring 'big sister'.  She was even happier when her sister got big enough to play with her.  Life was good!

Then, after some time, Diana's mommy wasn't feeling well and had to go to the hospital to get better.  Diana and her sister had to stay at someone else's home for a while.  While at the hospital, her mommy got a message from her grandpa in Illinois that Judy had been killed in a car accident a few weeks earlier.  Her mommy was just devastated.  Her brother, Jerry, had died in a home fire when he was only five yrs old, and now her sister, Judy was gone, too.  She didn't know how she could ever go on.  But she knew she had to, for her little girls.  What she didn't know was that, at about that very same time, they were being abused and battered by the very people who were supposed to be taking care of them.  A few days later, Diana Lynn was dead, her short life snuffed out, just like that.  She was gone too soon, way too soon.  No innocent little child could ever deserve having his or her life end like that.