Dianna Dixon

Hastings resident Dianna Dixon, 60, passed away Sunday, November 16, 2025, at her home.

There will be no services at this time. Memorials may be given to the family. 

Dianna was born March 8, 1965, to Wayne and Cleona Weiser at Reno, NV. They moved to Shelton, NE in 1969. She attended Shelton Public Schools and then later moved to Kansas and worked in bridge construction. Dianna moved to Lincoln, NE and worked in a factory, later moved to Grand Island, NE and had various jobs, then after a few years she moved to Bakersfield, CA and worked in a fundraising office. Dianna moved back to Grand Island and married Jeff Neal and before moving to Hastings, NE.

Dianna was a unique person but very simple. She did the best she could with the life she was given, she made friends easily and had a way of helping people with their problems. Dianna thought that was her purpose in this life, it made her feel good to help others. She worked hard and gave everything she had to her purpose at the time.

Dianna loved flowers and filled her life with as many as she could. She loved the spring, and it would give her joy to see her flowers blooming. To her it was a celebration of new life.

Dianna loved to fish and go camping, it brought her great happiness when she bought her camper. She was so excited the first time she had it out and she made a joke while sitting there about having to go to the bathroom and she should go find a bush or tree, and then saying, “oh that’s right, I don’t need to do that anymore I have a bathroom” and she just laughed. She could sit by the water for hours and not catch a thing. She enjoyed looking at the trees and listening to the birds. On breezy days she enjoyed the wind on her skin. When Dianna caught a fish, she got excited hoping it was a big one but to her dismay it was usually a little one. She never had a problem catching the little ones, the big ones always got away.

She also enjoyed nature, walking in the woods gave her peace and a sense of calm. Dianna would stop to look at trees and animal tracks. She had a saying “man can control a lot of things, but nature has no master.”

She loved having an acreage with a large timber area. Dianna could go for a nature walk anytime she wanted and would look for owl and hawk nests. She was an animal lover and had her own animal preserve. Dianna would feed the squirrels and birds and loved the large variety of birds that would come around.

Dianna enjoyed sitting on the back deck and watching the turkeys fly down from the trees into the backyard early in the morning. She was a cat lover, and she spoiled her cats, Max, Ruffus, Tiger, and Ernie. Dianna loved art, painting flowers in watercolor and latex, and making small bowls with pine needles.

Dianna also had a lot of little sayings to help her cope with life’s little problems. She was not religious but credited a lot of the good things in her life to a higher power and counted her blessings every chance she had.

Diana was preceded in death by her parents.

SURVIVORS:
Husband:
    Jeff Neal
Brothers:
    Delbert Weiser - Shelton, NE
    Douglas Weiser - Overton, NE
Step-Nephew:
    T.J.
Step-Niece:
    Jackie
Nephew:
    Kyle
Great-Niece:
    Isabella
Great-Nephews:
    Issac
    Gaberial

Weep for me not, for my life here is done. I’ve learned a lot, I’ve done what I could. My life has been filled with memories galore. Even though my body is gone, all my memories shall live on. So next time a flower you see, you laugh or smile, think of me.