Diana Marie May

My name is Alexzandria May and my brother is Samuel F. May, III and we want you to learn more about our mother and her silent yet courageous battle with cancer.

We would appreciate your help and contributions in allowing us to celebrate our mother with a beautiful memorial service, pay any outstanding medical bills for her treatment, and allow us to make a donation to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital on her behalf to expand research on the disease that took her and many others from us too soon, and donate to a local library she was a frequent visitor of as she loved books.

Our mother, Diana Marie May, age 73 passed away peacefully on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 surrounded by her immediate family at her bedside at home.

Diana was diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic Rectal Cancer in September 2021. Diana immediately began chemotherapy to fight this disease with her children by her side. She then took chemotherapy pills at home for about a year at which point scans revealed her main tumor had grown and she was a candidate for radiation therapy. She went through radiation December 2022 to January 2023. Scans revealed not much improvement and she was recommended for a new course of chemotherapy. With her daughter by her side at each treatment, she vowed to keep fighting. She began physical therapy to improve her mobility and this afforded her much deserved independence in her final months at home. At her follow-up doctors appointment on July 14th, scan results showed her cancer had aggressively spread throughout her body and bone. She began hospice at home and was cared for with grace and dignity by her family until her last breath on Tuesday, July 25 at 7:54am. May she rest in peace free from pain and suffering. We will all be thinking about her in our minds and hearts everyday.

Diana was an avid romance novel reader, loved the Washington Capitals hockey team (her favorite player is Alexander Ovechkin), loved the New York Yankees, Florida Gators football, Raiders (when they were in Oakland, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas) football, rock music spanning the decades (like Led Zeppelin), going on cruises and vacations with her children (and sometimes with her granddogger), keeping up to date with news and current events, and loved watching TV (including HGTV, Food Network, The Incredible Dr. Pol Vet show, Critter Fixers, and The Hallmark Channel movies).

A visitation for Diana will be held Saturday, August 12, 2023 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM at Babione Funeral Home, 10060 Calle Comercio Drive, Boca Raton, Florida, followed by a memorial celebration from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

Thank you for all your contributions in helping us to honor and celebrate the life of our beautiful mother!