(26 Sept. 1949-20 April 1990), missionary. Born at Ste-Adèle, Que. Parents: Paul Emile Levert and his wife Kathleen (Kay) McDonald (1921-1999). With her parents, she moved to Alexandria, where she attended Alexander School and the high school. Also, she was a dance pupil of the Rae MacCulloch Dancing School. Expert in Highland and other dancing, during the 10 years in which she took part in dancing competitions, the young Dianne earned 52 medals from dancing associations in Ont. and Que., and numerous certificates for Highland dancing. She graduated in nursing in 1967 from the Ottawa Civic Hospital, then studied art at Sheridan College of Arts at Brampton, Ont. She was a nurse at Glengarry Memorial Hospital, Alexandria, for two years, and afterwards in Ottawa. In 1975 she went to Mexico as a lay missionary. Altogether, in her career as a missionary, working with “the poor, the aged and the children,” she served not only in Mexico, but in Guatemala, Peru and Calcutta. She lived finally at Oaxaca, Mexico, where along with her missionary work she was organist in the cathedral. She was drowned when caught in an undertow while swimming at Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Burial was at Oaxaca, Mexico. She last visited her home in Alexandria in 1978 but at the time of her death was planning to come home for a year’s leave. Roman Catholic. She was an artist, whose paintings are mentioned in her obituary.
Glengarry News 2 May 1990 (portrait) (QF), 18 Sept. 1997 * private information * Laing 20 & 23 (portraits) * family gravestone, St. Finnan’s cemetery, Alexandria