THOMAS, Diane Renee 1947-1985

THOMAS, STENSLAND, BRIGGS, LONG, MYDLAND, THORSON

Posted By: Linda (email)
Date: 2/13/2012 at 08:56:46

Funeral services for Diane Renee Thomas, 39, of Pacific Palisades, California, were held Saturday, October 26, at the Los Altos United Methodist Church in Long Beach, California. Interment will be in Our Saviors Lutheran cemetery at rural Inwood, Iowa, where her father, Earl Thomas is buried.

Diane died Monday, October 21, when her 1985 Porsche, driven by a friend, swerved off the road and hit a power pole near Topanga Beach, California.

She was born January 7, 1946 in Sault St. Marie, Michigan. Her family moved to Long Beach, California, when she was 12 years old. She attended USC, majoring in business. She worked as an advertising copy writer, wrote travel brochures, took acting class and worked toward a degree in psychology.

Thomas was best known for writing the screenplay for the film “Romancing the Stone.” At the time of her death, she was working for producer-director Steven Spielberg.

Survivors include her mother, the former Ethelyn Stensland of Inwood; two sisters, Sandra Briggs of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Penny Thomas of Long Beach, California; uncle Griffin Stensland of Rock Rapids; cousins LaVonne Mydland of Rock Rapids and Dorothy Thorson of Luverne, Minnesota.

LaVonne Mydland attended the services Saturday in California.

Lyon County Reporter, Rock Rapids, Iowa, Wednesday, October 30, 1985, page 3.

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