{"id":1827,"date":"2014-09-13T21:27:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T21:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2014-09-13T21:27:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T21:27:55","slug":"diane-d-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=1827","title":{"rendered":"Diane D. Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?attachment_id=1828\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1828\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1828\" title=\"diane martin photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/diane-martin-photo-200x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/diane-martin-photo-200x252.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/diane-martin-photo-250x315.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/diane-martin-photo.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Diane D. Martin \u2013 79 \u2013 of 71 South Main St., Alfred, NY, died Saturday morning (September 13, 2014) following a brief illness.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Cincinnati, OH, on January 1, 1935, she was the daughter of Christian &amp; Cornelia (van Schouwen) Dettmer.\u00a0 She resided in the Alfred area for the past 48 years.<\/p>\n<p>Diane grew up and attended high school in Cincinnati.\u00a0 She earned her BA in history from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY and later received an MS in art education from Alfred University. She also held an AAS in ornamental horticulture from SUNY Alfred.<\/p>\n<p>As an instructor for SUNY Empire State College, Diane taught art and photography. Her own etchings and paintings were exhibited at the Oxford Gallery in Rochester, NY and other locations. Her love of gardening was intertwined with her work as an artist and writer. She enjoyed designing gardens as much as she did photographing and painting them. She published books and articles on gardening and herbs, and her much of her artwork incorporated garden themes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Diane\u2019s contributions to the community included serving as chairman of the Village of Alfred Planning Board and president of the Alfred University Women\u2019s Club. She also served on the board of directors for the Herb Society of America.<\/p>\n<p>Diane was preceded in death by her former husband, Richard Martin and her brother, Roger Dettmer.<\/p>\n<p>Surviving are two daughters, Kemm (Eric) Sarver of Collingswood, NJ and Kris Martin of Coxsackie, NY; her sister, Cornelia Dettmer of Wilmington, DE; her granddaughter, Rosa Sarver; and several nieces &amp; nephews.<\/p>\n<p>At Diane\u2019s request there will be no calling hours or services.\u00a0 Funeral arrangements are in care of the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY 14843.<\/p>\n<p>Diane\u2019s family request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in her name be made to The Alfred Box of Books Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane D. Martin \u2013 79 \u2013 of 71 South Main St., Alfred, NY, died Saturday morning (September 13, 2014) following a brief illness. Born in Cincinnati, OH, on January 1, 1935, she was the daughter of Christian &amp; Cornelia (van Schouwen) Dettmer.\u00a0 She resided in the Alfred area for the past 48 years. Diane grew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}