Diana's Obituary
Diana Lynn (Mason) Spragg (Perrine) 74, passed into the hands of the Lord due to complications from congenital heart failure on Friday, December 23, 2022, at a local hospital.
Memorial services will be held in the late spring/early summer of 2023 at Highland Cemetery.
Diana was born September 30, 1948, in Great Falls, Montana, to Lewis “Red” and Lucille (Wesche) Mason. She attended school in Great Falls. Then she was married to Daniel Spragg in Great Falls on August 7, 1965, and Wallace Perrine in 2011.
Diana worked in the health Industry for more than 40 years and retired as the Cancer Registrar at Benefis Sletten Cancer Institute in 2008. After her retirement, Diana updated the cancer registry for Indian Reservations in Montana for three years then settled into active “retirement.”
While Diana and Dan were raising their children (Mike, Tony, and Pat) they enjoyed camping and fishing in the Lincoln area and getting firewood on Divide Road in Kings Hill. Another experience was when her son Tony who at the age of twelve convinced the Montana Power Company to put an excess power pole in the backyard for his basketball hoop. She enjoyed gardening, cross-stitching, traveling, and her family.
Upon retirement, Diana experienced many activities including rodeos such as the Bear Paw Roundup, the Houston Rodeo, and the Calgary stampede. Other highlights included a trip to Connecticut in 2008 to visit her son Mike, his wife Andrea, and their family with a side trip to New York City on New Year’s Eve to watch the ball drop.
She also went on cruises to the Caribbean, Alaska, and the Mediterranean, a tour of the Rock of Gibraltar (Monkeys) and Morocco (Camels), and a tour of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. Over Christmas vacation in 2014, Diana and Wally took a trip to China and were atop the Great Wall of China on Christmas Day. She also enjoyed a trip by bus to watch the Rose Bowl Parade followed by a cruise to Ensenada, Mexico, and Las Vegas. Among her other travels, she visited Sea World, Branson Missouri, and Washington D.C.
In 2019 Wally and Diana took their motorhome to Tucson for the winter. They returned to Great Falls in February to attend granddaughter Leesa’s wedding to Dan Triplett. The rest of the winter in Tucson was spent enjoying the company of the Ron and Phyllis Spragg family. During the summer they enjoyed camping trips with their families sons Pat and Tony and the Perrine outlaws. Diana was a lover of animals and cherished several dogs over her lifetime. She absolutely loved her pets Chubbles and Sam. Her latest pets were two Pugs, Grady and Bailey who were her constant companions.
Diana is survived by her husband, Wallace Perrine; sons Michael (Andrea Cash-Spragg) of DeKalb, Illinois, Anthony, and Patrick (Luanne) Spragg of Great Falls, Montana; stepchildren, Michael (Sherry), Mitchell (Candy) Perrine, and Michelle (Reese) McHargue; grandchildren, Albert Gonzalez, Alexis (Dustin) Haffner, Leesa (Dan) Triplett, Ryan (Chrystal) Vanover, Taylor Lozano, Christopher, Cassie, Aarron, Ashley, Kirsten, Zach, Cameron (Megan) Spragg, Stephanie (Alex) Scott, Julie (Wade) Wall, and Tyler Gilbertson; brothers-in-law, Don (Arlene) Spragg, Kent (Kathy) Perrine, Mick Perrine, Dean Rowland; sisters-in-law, Delores Chapman, Phyllis Spragg, Teresa Dominco, Joyce (Keith) Tesarek, Wanda (Lawrence) Peterson, June (Dean) Rowland, and Ken (Sandi Watkins Smith) Ronish; and 27 great-grandchildren.
Her first husband Daniel preceded her in death in 2003. She was also preceded in death by her parents, Lewis and Lucille Mason; sisters, Denise (Gene) Filer and Machelle (Alex) Jarvis; brothers-in-law, Harold (Mary) Hasenkrug, Ron (Phyllis) Spragg, Edward (Marge) Spragg, Larry (Teresa) Dominco, Gene Filer; sisters-in-law, Bernadette (Edward) Schultz, Wilhelmina (Blaine Dempsey Mahana) Spragg, Violet Spragg (Ronald Spragg-Kastens) Mary (Harold) Hasenkrug, William Perrine, Keith (Joyce) Tesarek, June (Ken) Ronish, and her faithful dogs.
The family has suggested memorials to Benefis Sletten Cancer Institute (1117 29th St S, Great Falls, MT 59405.)
