Funeral services for Dianna Evans will be held Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 2 p.m., at Burley Funeral Chapel, Oak Harbor. Cmdr. Fred Renfroe, CHC, USN (Ret) will officiate. Interment will follow at Maple Leaf Cemetery.
Dianna Marketti Evans, 33, died Oct. 1, 2002, at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, D.C., following a lengthy illness. She was born at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Dec. 23, 1968, to Joseph A. and Grace E. (Rodriguez) Marketti.
Dianna came to Oak Harbor with her family in 1984 and attended Oak Harbor High School. She was married May 15, 1994 to Steve D. Evans in Oak Harbor. She and Steve were transferred to Hawaii for three years and back to Oak Harbor and in 2001, moved to Woodbridge, Va.
Dianna was a Girl Scout leader and service manager for the Girl Scouts of America while in Hawaii. She was an ocean liner enthusiast and a member of the Titanic Historical Society.
Dianna is survived by her husband, Steve of Woodbridge, Va.; by three children, Ryan, Rebecca and Joshua Jackson, all of Oak Harbor; by her father and stepmother, Joe and Kathy Marketti of Oak Harbor; by her mother, Grace Meyer of San Diego, and one step-sister, September Mazza of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Burley Funeral Chapel, Oak Harbor. This obituary may be seen on-line at http://burley.plan4ever.com