Obituary – Diana Cruse
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Diana Starr Cruse age 55, of Shelbyville, passed away Monday, August 15, 2022.
Funeral services will be at 5pm Thursday, August 18, 2022, at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel. Reverend B.K. Miller will officiate.
The family will receive visitors from 5-7pm on Wednesday, August 17, 2002, at the funeral home.
She was born November 21, 1966, in Gary, Indiana, to the late James Marshall and Mary Alice Watson Patterson. She was a trainer of Tennessee Walking Horses and American Saddlebred Horses. She was well known in the show ring, and won many World Championships. She was a Christian and a woman of great faith.
Survivors include three sons, Marshall Colton Atherton, Zachary Todd Atherton, and Lawrence Joseph Atherton; a brother, Lawrence Dean Patterson; grandchild, Ali Ann Atherton.
Feldhaus Memorial Chapel is assisting the family with the arrangements.
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