Post by Dreamchild on Nov 19, 2013 18:46:15 GMT -8
Diane Disney-Miller, the biological daughter of Walt Disney, has died from complications after a fall in September. She was 79.
She has done an awful lot for her father's name, it's amazing how much she accomplished. As an instrumental woman behind the Walt Disney Concert Hall and The Walt Disney Family Museum, as well as the non-Disney Silverado Vineyards, her life was full of hard work and compassion.
I have, in fact, encountered her a few times, all of which were in The Walt Disney Family Museum. I never had the pleasure of speaking to her, but we did make eye contact once, and even then I knew she was busy-busy-busy. Always talking, always enthusiastic when talking even in whisper... she seemed Disney to me. She obviously loved her family dearly, so much that, in a fax, chastised the popular biography book Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler, as "a monstrous piece of libelous junk. My parents were not the people he creates in this book, and I cannot understand why all of you who aided and abetted Gabler in writing this book, and who praise it and promote it, can do so without suffering serious qualms." Apparently there was a serious disconnect between what Gabler wrote and what Diane remembered.
Eerily enough, she had fallen the day my sister and Amanda visited the Museum. Diane was okay then, but it seems this latest fall was a lot worse.
She is survived by her husband, Ron Miller (former CEO of Disney), seven children and even more grandchildren. She got BIZ-AY!!!
Rest in peace, Mrs. Diane Disney-Miller. You deserve a good rest after all your hard work.
Source: www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-et-cm-diane-disney-miller-champion-of-disney-hall-design-dies-at-79-20131119,0,2587820.story#axzz2l9ICpIJc
She has done an awful lot for her father's name, it's amazing how much she accomplished. As an instrumental woman behind the Walt Disney Concert Hall and The Walt Disney Family Museum, as well as the non-Disney Silverado Vineyards, her life was full of hard work and compassion.
I have, in fact, encountered her a few times, all of which were in The Walt Disney Family Museum. I never had the pleasure of speaking to her, but we did make eye contact once, and even then I knew she was busy-busy-busy. Always talking, always enthusiastic when talking even in whisper... she seemed Disney to me. She obviously loved her family dearly, so much that, in a fax, chastised the popular biography book Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler, as "a monstrous piece of libelous junk. My parents were not the people he creates in this book, and I cannot understand why all of you who aided and abetted Gabler in writing this book, and who praise it and promote it, can do so without suffering serious qualms." Apparently there was a serious disconnect between what Gabler wrote and what Diane remembered.
Eerily enough, she had fallen the day my sister and Amanda visited the Museum. Diane was okay then, but it seems this latest fall was a lot worse.
She is survived by her husband, Ron Miller (former CEO of Disney), seven children and even more grandchildren. She got BIZ-AY!!!
Rest in peace, Mrs. Diane Disney-Miller. You deserve a good rest after all your hard work.
Source: www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-et-cm-diane-disney-miller-champion-of-disney-hall-design-dies-at-79-20131119,0,2587820.story#axzz2l9ICpIJc
