Diana Renee Cox Osborne's Obituary
Diana Renee Cox Osborne 7-6-85 to 5-31-2025
Diana, age 39, relocated to her heavenly home on Saturday evening, May 31, 2025, from Huntsman Cancer Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT.
She is survived by her beloved husband of 14.5 years, Richard Jennings Osborne II (Rick). Diana and Rick met in 2010 and married within months, much in love and both confident they had found their best friend and partner for life. They have resided in West Valley City with their faithful fur baby, Bandit, upon relocation from Central Florida. Diana and Rick enjoyed hosting friends and family, traveling, and exploring Utah and national parks and sites across the country. Diana was an excellent homemaker who ventured into making delicious apple butter, chutney, salsa and vanilla flavoring, complementing Rick’s growing mastery of the grill and smoker.
Diana was born and raised in Orlando, Florida. From an early age, Diana’s parents knew she was very bright and a fast thinker. When she was in daycare at the age of 2, she would take the correct shoes to each of her classmates, astonishing her teachers. At that age or younger, she loved sitting on her daddy’s lap and would say “pooter daddy” as he brought up his computer with children’s videos. Her affinity for computers and technology has been demonstrated throughout her life and career.
With broad interests in school, Diana participated in track, gymnastics, synchronized swimming, chorus, drama club and modeling. She made friends with each endeavor and especially loved her friends in the youth group at Dover Shores Baptist Church in Orlando, FL.
Diana graduated from Boone High School in Orlando in 2003, attended University of South Florida in Tampa for 2 years, then transferred to University of North Carolina-Wilmington, graduating in 2007 with a degree in Parks and Recreation Management.
Diana has always been a hardworking and highly motivated adult, attending college while working, and holding as many as three jobs simultaneously after graduating. Diana began her career in the management training program at Enterprise in Orlando, transitioned into employee recruiting at agencies, then at Siemens Gamesa, and finally into her dream job as a corporate recruiter for Lockheed Martin. To build her strength and add variety to her life, Diana joined the activities team at Marriott Mountainside, in Park City, Utah, on the weekends for several months. She enjoyed her professional colleagues and appreciated their mentorship and friendships.
Precious Diana was always fun-loving, adventurous, warm, welcoming, optimistic, planning ahead and a fighter. That fighting spirit, her faith, family, friends and medical care team helped her overcome breast cancer in 2023, malignant brain tumor surgery in February 2025, and brought her to the final battle with LMD cancer diagnosed in April.
Diana is survived by her parents, Dwain and Joanne Cox of North Carolina, mother- and step-father-in-law Donna and Mark Sutton of Florida, sister-in-law Nancy Osborne, aunt Iris Cox, aunts and uncles Linda and Tom Chafin and Janet and John Laughlin, with whom Diana forged a special bond on family vacations in Cashiers, NC; cousins Anne English, John English and Holly Patel and their families, and the family of Allyson and deceased cousin Clark English, and Tucker Clark.
Diana is predeceased by grandparents Clarence and Leola Trogdon, Edsel and Violet Cox, “honorary” grandparents Jim and Betty Robinson, and cousins Clark English and Joshua Laughlin.
Diana held God, family and friends close in her heart and loved them well as all loved her. We can’t imagine continuing life without the bright and loving presence of our amazing Diana, but we know her body is wholly perfected and she is loving her home in Heaven. See you soon, dear one. With all our love.
A memorial service will be held for Diana on Thursday June 5, 2025 at 2pm (MDT) at Premier Funeral Services, 67 East 8000 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84047. For those who were unable to attend in person, a recording of the service was made: https://youtu.be/P-EW51S0QD4
Many thanks to Diana’s oncology, surgical and Huntsman Cancer Institute Hospice teams.
In her memory, donations may be made to the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation.
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