{"id":21377,"date":"2025-10-24T06:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=21377"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:08:46","slug":"diane-e-reynolds-82-of-effingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/21377-diane-e-reynolds-82-of-effingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane E. Reynolds (82) of Effingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><div>Diane Reynolds, 82, passed away peacefully at her home on Thursday, October 23, 2025 following a 7-year battle with Parkinson\u2019s disease. She was surrounded by her beloved husband and their two sons.<\/div>\n<div>A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 am on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church with burial following in Mother of Dolors Catholic Cemetery, Vandalia. Visitation will be held from 9:00 am to 10:30 am Wednesday at Bauer Funeral Home in Effingham. Memorial donations may be given to the charity of the donor\u2019s choice.<\/div>\n<div>Diane was born in Vandalia, Illinois, on January 27, 1943, the daughter of Slater and Helen (Kelly) Walton. Diane spent the early years of her life living in rural Williams Camp, a Carter Oil Company town, where she attended a two-room country school. It was there that she developed a love of learning while she benefited from the extraordinary expertise of her teacher, Beatrice Owens. This influence helped her become a dedicated teacher herself, and she influenced countless children during her teaching career.<\/div>\n<div>She married Joe Reynolds, the love of her life. They were married for over 63 years\u00a0and had two sons\u2014Yale and Michael.<\/div>\n<div>Diane, Joe, Yale, and Mike were all interested in and active in tennis. Diane received the USTA\u00a0Community Service Award for her outstanding\u00a0contributions to tennis. She was presented a plaque\u00a0during a special\u00a0ceremony at the National Tennis Teachers\u2019 Conference in New York City.<\/div>\n<div>Diane coached the Effingham High School girls\u2019 tennis team, and her son, Yale,\u00a0coached the\u00a0St. Anthony\u2019s girls\u2019 team. Her competitive spirit always\u00a0rose to new heights when her team faced\u00a0Yale\u2019s team during those days.\u00a0Neither would give an inch!<\/div>\n<div>After she retired from teaching, Diane remained active in the community and St. Anthony\u2019s Church. She participated in many Bible study classes, helped with parish fundraisers, and attended Mass regularly.<\/div>\n<div>Diane had a genuinely caring and unselfish personality, and it seemed she knew everybody in Effingham! She always saw the best in everyone\u00a0she met. Going to a restaurant, Walmart, or any other place in Effingham with her could be a challenge if in a hurry. She not only knew everyone, she wasn\u2019t content until she had greeted each person, chatted a while, and, most importantly, gave everyone a compliment.\u00a0This was especially true if she saw parents with small children. She had to tell\u00a0all the parents how beautiful their children were. Hers was truly a life well lived and a life lived for others.<\/div>\n<div>Diane is survived by her husband, Joe,\u00a0sons Yale\u00a0and Michael (Nancy), sisters Cheryl Gale and Barbara (Franklin) Steinhauser, nephew\u00a0Benjamin Steinhauser, nieces Kathleen (Mark)\u00a0Misquitta\u00a0and Lauren (Jeff) Scott, great-nephews Luca and Levi\u00a0Misquitta\u00a0and George\u00a0Scott.<\/div>\n<div>She was preceded in death by her parents, father-in-law\u00a0and\u00a0mother-in-<wbr \/>law,\u00a0Maurice and Olive Reynolds,\u00a0brother-in-law,\u00a0<wbr \/>Monroe Reynolds,\u00a0and nephew, Larrey Gale.<\/div>\n<div>Diane will be sorely missed and long remembered by her loving family and multitude of friends.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane died Thursday, October 23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Diane E. 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