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Diana Padelford BINKLEY
December 7, 1945 ~ August 24, 2003 Memorial Services will be held on
Saturday, September 6, at 2 p.m. at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church in East
Sound, Orcas Island and on Sunday, September 14, at 4 p.m. at the Bishop's
School Chapel, La Jolla, California. Diana was born and raised in Seattle, the
daughter of Fay Frederick Padelford and Philip S. Padelford. She attended and
graduated from the Bush School, Seattle, in 1964. She graduated from The
Colorado College in 1968 and served on The Colorado College Board of
Trustees 1998-2002. After leaving college with a BA degree in French, she
worked at Simon & Schuster Publishing, New York, and in Governor Nelson
Rockefeller's public relations office in New York, N.Y. In 1970 she founded
the Montessori School of Hanover, New Hampshire where she taught 4 years
prior to her marriage to Nicholas B. Binkley, August 3, 1974. They celebrated
their 29th wedding anniversary shortly before her death. Diana taught yoga
and vedic chanting at the North County Yoga Center in Solana Beach, CA.
and studied yoga and chanting in Chennai, India with T.V.K. Desikichar.
Services in her memory were held during the week of August 25 by the San
Francisco Zen Center at their temples at Green Gulch, Tassajara, and the San
Francisco City Center. A memorial service conducted by Rev. Mark Trotter
was held on Wednesday, August 27, at the family residence in Rancho Santa
Fe, California. Her remains were cremated at the Hidden Hills Mortuary on
Wednesday, August 27, and ashes will be spread at the family's property on
Orcas Island. She leaves her husband, Nick Binkley, founding partner of
Forrest Binkley & Brown, a Southern California based venture capital firm,
her daughter, Pepper Alexandra 24, her son Byron Jack 22, Rancho Santa Fe,
California; her father Philip S. Padelford 91, her brother Donald F. Padelford,
and her sister Carol Padelford, Seattle Washington; her sister Janny Padelford,
St. Paul, Minnesota; Fay Michener, Saint Clair, France; and her god-daughter
Amanda Michener, Portland, Oregon. In lieu of flowers, remembrances can be
made to the Diana Padelford Binkley Foundation for Holistic Health
(dianamemorial@fbbvc.com) or to the Orcas Island Library children's
literature program. Her husband suggests the following memorial to Diana-to
live our lives with more childlike curiosity, more innocence and with more
kindness shown to others.
Published in print on 9/5/2003.
Seattle Times
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1945 - 2003 (57 years)
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