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Submitted: 8/8/24 • Approved: 8/13/24 • Last Updated: 8/16/24 • R1540788-G1540788-S3
Aug 28, 1960 - Jul 27, 2024
Diann Spoon Cumbie Siegele, aged 63, went to join our Lord and Savior and her loved ones in the early hours of July 27, 2024, at her home in Jacksonville, AR.
Diann Siegele had a remarkable gift of finding the goodness and potential in every human being she encountered. Diann saw beyond a person’s appearance, social standing and past mistakes. Her compassion was boundless.
There is no greater evidence of Diann’s boundless love, however, than her family, which include her children whom she adored, Michael, Marcia and Morgan Wyrick (Cumbie) Step-son Shawn Cumbie and Adopted Son A.J. Vaughn III; her beloved grandchildren, Heaven Bean (Vaughn), Midnite Bodiford, AJ Vaughn IIII, Olivia Vaughn, Emma Cumbie, Caige Seffernick, Nickalie Cumbie, and Evan Seffernick, Four Great-Grandchildren; and the scores of “adopted” children and adults who called her “mom” and “Mama Diann” over the years.
She was a harbor of acceptance and safety to so many children and adults facing instability, addictions and chaos – and a woman of action. She always had room in her heart and home for another person to love and support. She was quick to comfort and quick to start charting a plan to improve the situation. She was a hard worker and not afraid to advise others to take charge of their own well- being and direct them to work to make their own future better.
She displayed this remarkable trait in her 14 years of leadership in a recovery program where she mentored scores of people seeking help, in her decade-plus career mentoring and encouraging single parents attending college, and in her “circus of friends,” whom she hosted for holidays, family gatherings and totally random reasons to have a party!
Diann was born in Arlington, VA, on August 28,1960, to parents Dewey Lloyd and Mary Jo Spoon. She was the oldest of their four daughters. She moved with her first husband, Vance H. Cumbie, to Arkansas, and was widowed in 1998. Diann remarried William Siegele in 1999, to whom she was married until his death in 2019. Despite the loss of their father, Diann worked hard to provide a fun-filled, loving home for their three birth children – and anyone else who showed up in their lives!
As a single mom, Diann enrolled at Pulaski Technical College where she graduated with honors. She went on to work at the Single Parent Scholarship Program of Pulaski County in 2000 where over the next 13 years she encouraged, coached, laughed and cried with hundreds of moms who were attending college while parenting alone, just as Diann had done. She cared deeply about each scholarship recipient and had a bond with many of them until her death.
She is preceded in death by her mother, Mary Jo Spoon, sisters Deborah Spoon & Ann Marie Vaughn, husbands Vance Cumbie & William Seigele, and adopted son AJ Vaughn III.
She is survived by her father, Dewey Lloyd Spoon, sister Sharon Stevers, children Michael Cumbie, Marcia Cumbie, & Morgan Wyrick (Cumbie), stepson Shawn Cumbie, grandchildren Heaven Bean (Vaughn), Midnite Bodiford, AJ Vaughn IIII, Olivia Vaughn, Emma Cumbie, Caige Seffernick, Nickalie Cumbie and Evan Seffernick. Four great-grandchildren and many nieces, nephews, and a Circus of friends & loved ones.
In keeping with Diann’s spirit of inclusiveness, everyone is invited to celebrate her life on Saturday August 10th at 2pm, Graves Memorial Baptist Church, 4617 Oak Grove Rd, North Little Rock, AR 72118
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Women’s Ministry at the Dorcas House c/o Union Rescue Mission Little Rock.
Donate | Union Rescue Mission (urmissionlr.org)
823 S. Park Street | Little Rock, AR
Phone (501) 374-4022 Ext. 3
Arrangements by A Natural State Funeral Service 2620 West Main Street, Jacksonville, Arkansas 72076. 501-982-3400. Online guestbook available at www.anaturalstatefuneralservice.com
Contributed on 8/8/24 by eagle12953
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