1941
Dianne
2021
Dianne Ruth Tankard (Hamann)
June 26, 1941 — December 12, 2021
Dianne Ruth Tankard, 80 of Independence, MO passed away Sunday, December 12, 2021 at the Villages of Jackson Creek. Cremation is planned with private family services and inurnment in Mound Grove Cemetery at a later date.
Dianne was born June 26, 1941 in Stewartsville, MO to Howard Leslie and Delores Jeanne (Mauzey) Hamann. She grew up in Stewartsville, Mo and graduated from Stewartsville High School in 1959. She later graduated from Northwest Missouri State. After graduation she moved to Washington, DC and went to work for the Department of the Navy in 1961 and later worked in St. Louis. While in Washington she volunteered her time as church secretary for one of the local Community of Christ Churches. She enjoyed reading, cooking and was a very skilled seamstress sewing clothing and doing cross stitch. She was married to James A. Tankard on February 21, 1970 and where happily married until his unexpected passing in 1993.
She is survived by; a daughter, Kathy Tankard of St. Louis, MO; 4 sisters, Peggy Jackson and husband Donnie of Stewartsville, MO, Jeanne Anderson of Independence, MO, Rosemary Hahn of Kidder, MO and Phyllis Fisk and husband James of Gallup, NM; 2 sisters-in-law, Carol V. Costantini and husband Joseph and Barbara L. Thatcher and husband Phillip; many nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews, and other cousins and extended family and friends. She was preceded in death by, her parents, a sister, Andrea Kay Ledbetter in 2016 and an infant brother, Duane Leslie Hamann in 1945.
Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.speakschapel.com (Arrangements: Speaks Suburban Chapel (816) 373-3600)
Dianne was born June 26, 1941 in Stewartsville, MO to Howard Leslie and Delores Jeanne (Mauzey) Hamann. She grew up in Stewartsville, Mo and graduated from Stewartsville High School in 1959. She later graduated from Northwest Missouri State. After graduation she moved to Washington, DC and went to work for the Department of the Navy in 1961 and later worked in St. Louis. While in Washington she volunteered her time as church secretary for one of the local Community of Christ Churches. She enjoyed reading, cooking and was a very skilled seamstress sewing clothing and doing cross stitch. She was married to James A. Tankard on February 21, 1970 and where happily married until his unexpected passing in 1993.
She is survived by; a daughter, Kathy Tankard of St. Louis, MO; 4 sisters, Peggy Jackson and husband Donnie of Stewartsville, MO, Jeanne Anderson of Independence, MO, Rosemary Hahn of Kidder, MO and Phyllis Fisk and husband James of Gallup, NM; 2 sisters-in-law, Carol V. Costantini and husband Joseph and Barbara L. Thatcher and husband Phillip; many nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews, and other cousins and extended family and friends. She was preceded in death by, her parents, a sister, Andrea Kay Ledbetter in 2016 and an infant brother, Duane Leslie Hamann in 1945.
Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.speakschapel.com (Arrangements: Speaks Suburban Chapel (816) 373-3600)
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