Diana Nachbur

On November 3, 2008, Diana Adams Nachbur of Westfield slipped out of this life
into a wider one. She wanted her family and friends to know that "you all have
made it a feast for me!" Diana was an incredibly loving, wonderful person who
touched everyone she met and has left a spectacular legacy. The world is more
blessed because of her many selfless contributions.

Diana was born October 15, 1932 in New York City to two actors, the late Eleanor
Wells Adams and William Perry Adams. She graduated from Vassar College with an
English degree in 1954, following which she worked as an editorial assistant to
the late Kaye Bourne, former fiction editor at Cosmopolitan magazine. On
February 24, 1957, she married Peter Nachbur in New York City. In 1959, she and
Peter moved to Chicago, where his company was opening a new office. Two years
later, they bought a house in suburban Wilmette, Ill., where their three
children were born. The couple moved back to the northeast in 1970, settling in
Scotch Plains.

In New Jersey, Diana volunteered for many years with the Washington Rock Girl
Scout Council as a troop leader and consultant, and also volunteered as a cub
scout den mother for her sons. From the 1970s through the early 1990s, she
worked part-time for her husband's firm Lloyd International as a bookkeeper. In
more recent years, she volunteered and touched more lives as a literacy tutor
through Literacy Volunteers of Union County, N.J.

Diana was an avid and gifted gardener, a voracious reader and a life-long
cat-lover. Though she was born and raised in New York City and had lived in
suburban Chicago and New Jersey, Diana's heart was most at home at her family's
summer house in Keene Valley in New York's Adirondack Mountains. Diana was the
fourth generation in her family to spend summer vacations in "the Valley." In
recent years, she and Peter were fortunate to spend a good part of their summers
there, where gardening, walking through the woods, telling fabulous stories and
organizing family meals were some of her favorite pastimes. Anyone who ever
visited was touched by not only the magic and history of the place, but by the
incomparable and welcoming hospitality Diana shared.

In January 2004, Diana was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia. With
Peter's devoted support, she received incredible care and benefited from
multiple clinical trials through NY Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical College,
where she created deep bonds with many of the medical staff. Always cheerful and
appreciative, Diana never complained about any treatment, test or examination
she received, no matter how frequent, because she knew that the results and
information her body and experience provided would be able to help future
patients. In her last three months, Diana received care from and touched the
lives of another group of wonderful providers at Overlook Hospital in Summit.
Her final days were marked by the tender and loving care of staff at the Center
for Hope Hospice in Scotch Plains.

In addition to her husband Peter of Westfield, she is survived by her three
children and their families: daughter Jenny Nachbur, her husband Mark Farrell
and their children William, Anna and Sam of Burlington, Vt.; son John, his wife
Laura, and their children Grant and Brent of Littleton, Colo.; and son Nick, his
wife Kim, and their children Austin, Perry and Reese of Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Survivors also include her brother-in-law Dr. Bernard Nachbur and sister-in-law
Bettina, niece Barbara Guggisberg, her husband Dominick and sons Christian and
Daniel, and nephew Peter Nachbur and his wife Stephanie of Switzerland; her
cousins Patty Wells of Somerville, Mass., and Fred Wells and his wife Martha of
Ipswich, Mass., and Ann Price of Prescott, Ariz.; as well as many dear friends
in New Jersey, Illinois, across the country and all over the world.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 11 am at St. Pauls Episcopal Church, 414 East Broad St., Westfield, NJ. Those wishing to make donations in
Diana's memory may send contributions marked "In Memory of Diana Nachbur" to one
of the following: Weill Cornell Medical College Leukemia Research, Office of
Development, 1300 York Ave. Box 123, New York, NY 10021; Center for Hope
Hospice, 1900 Raritan Rd., Scotch Plains, NJ 07076; Leukemia and Lymphoma
Society - Northern NJ Chapter, 14 Commerce Dr., Suite 301, Cranford, NJ 07016.