Sr. Dianne was born in Youngstown Ohio and moved to Salisbury, where her father was a native, at the age of 18 months. She lived there until she joined the Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart in 1976. In Salisbury, she was active in her parish with youth ministry, sacramental preparation, liturgy and the Cursillo Movement, while working as a pharmacy technician at the local hospital. Sr. Dianne has a BA in theology from Loyola of Baltimore and a Masters in Ministry from Seattle University. She has served as a director of religious education, youth minister, boys' prison chaplain, pastoral administrator, vocation director, and pastoral associate in Maryland, Delaware, Texas, Ohio, and Arizona. She enjoys traveling, hiking, swimming and crafts. She is closely connected to her three sisters and their families in Salisbury and her "adopted families" in Ohio and Arizona and all the places in between. Although she draws great peace from the view of the Arizona mountains, she knows
her spirituality is deeply rooted in the waters East of the Chesapeake Bay.