Carol Lynn Diener

At the early age of 4 yrs. old, the family moved to Detroit, MI where Carol’s sister Jeanne was born. They spent 7 additional year's in Detroit before moving to California.

Carol graduated from Fairfax high school in 1956 and still kept in close contact with her high school girlfriends up until just a few short years ago. Soon thereafter she met the man of her dreams and married the love of her life. Joel Diener and they shared 61 loving years” together”. The two lovebirds started a family right away giving birth to their daughter, Penni at age 20 and son, Lance at age 22.

Carol was outgoing and vivacious which lead her into the career world as an executive secretary for McCalls Magazine. She met a friend, Marlene Vallen who worked in an office nearby for Readers Digest. The two became close and remained dear friends through the years. They even started their own business called ”Portraits in Poetry”, in which they created custom cards with unique personal poems for executives to give to their secretaries, wives or client's.

Her excellent skills set her apart as she quickly became an asset to her employer’s including John Factor (Max Factor’s brother). John Factor was very good to Carol and her family through the years. Eventually, Joel’s Executive Search Company asked him to open a Chicago branch in 1973. So the family moved to Deerfield, IL for a year then built their home in Glenview, IL where they lived for the next 30 years.

Carol got a secretarial job in the Marina Towers directly across the street from Joel’s new office. After a while Joel made the decision to go out on his own and he opened his own Executive Search office in Northbrook, IL. Carol made the decision to work with Joel as his Private Secretary.

As a hobby for both, Joel and Carol always enjoyed looking at new housing developments. They would take drives together and if they’d saw a sign saying ”models open” they’d go inside. Even though they were not looking to move from their home in Glenview. Carol loved to see how houses we're decorated and Joel liked to see what homes sold for and what the values we're in different areas.

One day Joel suggested to Carol that they get their Real Estate License. They took the class, studied together, quizzed each other, took the test together and both passed the test!

They began their 20+ year career with Coldwell Banker selling residential Real Estate then after several years they began selling both Residential and Commercial Real-Estate and they both joined Remax.

They always worked as a team and they were Top Producers for both companies for many years.

As retirement quickly approached, they moved to Murrieta, CA where the climate was a benefit to their health. They moved into an over 55 community where Carol began to take advantage of playing and teaching Maj and was active in many of the other social activities.

Carol was involved in many organizations including ”The Harmonaires”, ”The Red Hat Society”, she volunteered for The Breast Cancer Resource Centers and in the early years she was active in the synagogue sisterhood.

Carol played the violin for many years. She loved violin music. Yitzchak Perlman she could listen to for hours. She was also a big fan of Andrea Boceli and Jackie Evancho whose career she's followed since 2010. Carol was overjoyed to have attended a Johnny Mathis concert with her sister Jeanne for her 81st birthday. It made her heart smile.

Carol enjoyed traveling, going on cruises, camping (in a motor home), and being glamorous! She was a student of the makeup tutorials on HSN, she loved the colors pink and coral and would never leave the house without her lipstick on!

Carol will be dearly missed by all that knew her, especially her family. She is proceeded in death by her late husband, Joel Diener and leaves behind her Loving Children Penni Gruenberg, Son Lance Diener (Vicky Diener), Sister, Jeanne Ryan ( Chuck Ryan), Grand Daughter’s, Ashley Gruenberg, Robin Sedars-Agee (Darrell Agee), Grandson, Michael Diener ( Jessica Diener) Great Grandchildren, Noah Diener, Holly Diener, Brooke Diener, Bennett Sedars, Issabella Agee, Ellianna Agee, Niece, Bright Ryan, Nephews, Howard Simon, David Simon, and their precious Dog Charlie!

In lieu of flowers, please consider sending a donation to:

The Alzheimer’s Association

225 N. Michigan Ave. FL 17

Chicago, Il 60601

act.alz.org