Carolyn Diann Mhoon
1944 - 2010
Diann Mhoon has gone home to be with the Lord, safe from the ravaging melanoma cancer that kept her hospitalized the last two weeks of her life. She passed away on July 3 in Dillon, at 66 years of age.
Diann was born Carolyn Diann Patterson in Denison, Texas, April 21, 1944. She and her childhood family lived in various locations in Texas. She also spent a brief time as a child in South Carolina where her daddy ran a logging business.
In the late 1950s, she accepted Jesus Christ as her Personal Savior and received Eternal Life at Prairie Creek Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. Her family lived in Mesquite, Texas a suburb of Dallas. During this time Diann attended middle school and high school in Mesquite.
In August, 1959, she went on a church camping trip from Dallas to Yellowstone National Park and back, just before the famous earthquake that made Quake Lake. It was on this trip she met her future husband, Michael Mhoon.
While Diannwas in high school, she was member of FHA, and was invited to join the National Honor Society. She graduated in 1963 and worked a year at Sears in Dallas before attending Moody Bible Institute in Chicago from 1964 to 1965.
She worked as a volunteer at the Navajo Indian Mission in New Mexico in the summer of 1965.
In the late 1960s, she moved with family to a country home outside Sulphur Springs, Texas. There she worked at a weather balloon manufacturing plant.
When her future husband, Michael Mhoon, returned from Vietnam in June 1968, Diann and Michael began dating. Diann and Michael Mhoon married on September 20, 1968 in Dallas, Texas. The two lived in San Antonio, then Dallas.
Michael finished college, and with three sons, Michael, Matthew, and Marshall, they moved to Oklahoma, Denver, Kentucky, Helena, Palmdale, Calif., and New Jersey, where Michael retired as a meteorologist with National Weather Service.
Diann and her husband Michael have worked in ministry since leaving the National Weather Service in 1996. Michael and Diann, both, were commissioned as Southern Baptist lifetime missionaries with the North American Mission Board in May 2008. They have served as Baptist collegiate ministry directors for the University of Montana Western in Dillon since 2008.
Diann’s father, Ernest Patterson, passed away in 1968, while her mother, Mary Pauline, passed away in January, 2005. Also, three of her sisters and her youngest brother preceded Diann in death. Diann and Michael’s youngest son, Marshall, was killed in 1993 at age 15.
Survivors include three sisters, Mary Martin, Francis Harris, and Brenda Johnson; and two brothers, Joe Patterson and Paul Patterson, all living in Texas. She is survived by her sons, Michael Earl Mhoon, 40, and Matthew Ernest Mhoon, 37, and Matthew’s wife, Anna, and grandson, Richard Hageman, 18, granddaughter Jorie Mhoon, 15, granddaughter Autumn Mhoon, 13, grandson Tyrone Hageman, 11, and granddaughter Gracie Mhoon, 9, all of Montana. She is also survived by her husband, Michael Edward Mhoon, 63, Dillon, to whom she was married to for almost 42 years.
The world is much emptier without her while Heaven rejoices in her entry into God’s Kingdom!
Visitation was at 2p.m. Tuesday, July 6 at Calvary Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held at Calvary Baptist Church, 1225 Knight Street, Helena, at 11:00 a.m. this morning. For information, call church at 406-442-5149 or Anderson Stevenson Wilke Funeral Home at 406-442-8520.
The family requests no flowers, but memorials can be sent in Diann’s name to North American Mission Board, subject: Dillon Collegiate Ministries, #9063, P.O. Box 116543, Atlanta, GA., 30368-6543.
Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting: www.stevensonandsons.com.
James Edgerly
In loving memory of our dad and friend James Edgerly who passed on the June 25. “Jim” was a five year resident of Dillon.
We want to thank his loving brother John; Duke Gilbert, the Sprinkles, Helena’s Marlene Knight; his golf buddies Marvin, Rodger, Bruce and Mike; his neighbor Kelly, and any others for their support.
Jim will be missed. His generosity, strength and love will live on. We love you Dad!!! Randy and John Edgerly.
Memorial services and interment will be at Pine Hills Cemetery in Wolfeboro, N. H. Memorial contributions may be made to Brewster Academy, N. H., the University of New Hampshire, or a charity of your choice.
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