- Date Of Birth: October 5, 1956
- Date Of Death: December 19, 2016
- State: Connecticut
Diana Olivette Norton Giles was born on October 5, 1956, and died on December 19, 2016. Diana is survived by her loving husband, Greg Giles and her stepchildren, Chris (Kathleen) and Danielle. She is also survived by her parents, Nicholas and Lynn (Kilbourne) Norton of Colchester and her brothers, Christopher (Carter), Andrew (Tom), Jeremy (Jane) and her nieces Katherine (John Magovern), Alexandra and Sara and her nephews Kiley and Oliver. She also very much loved her Uncle Ira and Aunt Nan Wasniewski of Colchester and Uncle Pete and Aunt Pat (now gone) Engel of East Hampton. And she is survived by many cousins and more nieces and nephews. She especially enjoyed the last 60 years with her closest, best cousins, Melissa Engel and Brett Wasniewski Dimberg. She was surrounded by her loving family, singing carols and reading poems, as her life came to an end. All who met her knew her to be warm, gracious, bright and full of humor. People enjoyed her and she enjoyed them. Diana was passionately devoted to her home town of Colchester and dedicated herself to countless projects and town happenings. At her death, she was the Chairman of the Bacon Academy Board of Trustees and the Republican Registrar in town. She had also served as Chairman of the Zoning Board, a Selectman, Co-Chairman of the Bacon Academy Bicentennial, a member of the Board of Assessment Appeals and managed the Memorial Day Parade. She loved politics and worked on and ran many political campaigns over many decades. She went from managing the supply room in the Washington headquarters of Ford for President to the Buckley for Senate effort to running field operations for Guglielmo for Congress and many other campaigns since. Closer to home, she ran Duncan Green’s winning campaign for First Selectman of Colchester. And she was especially proud of managing Art Shilosky’s successful campaign for the top job in Colchester just last year.
Bacon Academy Board of Trustees
P.O. Box 67, Colchester CT 06415
