Diane Kathleen Hunter, aged 66, slipped away under a harvest moon in the early hours of the morning of September 19th, 2013. Born in Los Angeles, she was, back in the day, a cohort

of Allen Ginsberg,

Neal Cassady, Shel Silverstein, Francis Ford Coppola and Jackson Browne. Impossibly beautiful, she was a model and did a brief stint as the town floozy in the soap opera, “General Hospital”. Die could be a formidable poker opponent and was willing and able to wield like a hammer the language and attitude of a teamster when appropriate – perhaps sometimes when not appropriate. But this thin, surly protective coating could not possibly conceal a spirit so loving, generous, loyal and honest that those who considered her a second mother are legion. She moved with her husband to Vashon in 2005 with the intention of pursuing, in a serious manner, her childhood passion – the meticulous and slightly obsessive art of dollhouse miniatures, receiving recognition as an Artisan by the International Guild of Miniature Artisans a couple of years later. Diane is survived in deep grief by: husband, Stephen Hunter; son, Jesse Hunter; mother, Kitty Curley; brother, Rick Curley and assorted sisters-in-law, cousins, nephews, a niece and more beloved friends than can readily be counted.

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