Diana Kay Brown

Diana Kay Brown, 73 years of age, was completely healed of cancer and met her Jesus on Saturday, March 27, 2021! She was born on April 2, 1947, in New Albany, Indiana and at four years old she was adopted and reared by Charles Roscoe Armstrong and Bessie Rebecca Armstrong. Diana graduated from New Albany High School in the Class of 1965. She went to Beauty College right after High School and became a licensed beautician. Diana thoroughly enjoyed what she did for a living and felt it was her calling. She always liked to work in the best places including Gary’s Salon, The Marriott Inn Salon, The Galt House Salon, The Hyatt Regency Salon, Stewarts Downtown Louisville Salon, and Regis Salon.

She was kind, outgoing, friendly, and never met a stranger. After twenty-five plus years of a hairstyling career, she decided to learn to drive a semi-tractor trailer. Diana and her husband, Rick, traveled all over the United States delivering much needed pharmaceuticals for six years with Fed-Ex. For the last thirteen years, she managed Jefferson Mobile Home Park in Jeffersonville along with her husband.

In her retirement, she always enjoyed getting together with her girlfriends, or family, visiting over coffee and something sweet, going to festivals, antiquing, shopping, thrifting, having yard sales, celebrating milestones, hosting small parties, and eating lots of lunches and dinners! Hospitality was her middle name. You always felt comfortable at her house and in her company. She had a kind heart, a great sense of humor, was very artistic, and always “fixy.” Diana was crazy about her two cats and called them her “other kids”. In adulthood, she came to know Jesus Christ personally and loved Him fiercely.

Diana was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Donna Wallace and Cheryl Morris; and brother, Earl Simms.

Later in life, Diana was blessed to be introduced to some of her biological family. She was thrilled to get to know her “new family” and loved each one of them dearly. Diana is survived by her brothers, Richard Daily (Carol), Roger Simms (Michele), and Carl Simms (Donna), many precious cousins, numerous nieces and nephews, and many dear friends. Diana is also survived by her husband, Richard T. “Rick” Brown Jr.; her daughter, Mindy Espeseth Tatum; son-in law, Rob Tatum; and two beloved grandchildren, Kayleigh True Scott Tatum and Andrew Peder Roy Tatum.

It was her wish to be cremated. Memorial Visitation will be held from 10 am ~ 1 pm on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at Kraft Funeral Service, 2776 Charlestown Road, New Albany IN. A Celebration of Diana’s Life will be held at 1 pm on Saturday in the Kraft Charlestown Road Chapel.