Carolyn Mhoon

Visitation: will begin at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 6th at Calvary Baptist Church, 1225 Knight Street.

Funeral Service: Wednesday July 7th, 2010 at 11:00 AM at the Calvary Baptist Church, 1225 Knight Street, Helena, Montana 59601

Diann Mhoon has gone home to be with the Lord, safe from the ravaging melanoma cancer that kept her hospitalized the last two weeks of her life. She passed away on July 3rd, 2010 in Dillon, Montana at sixty-six years of age.

Diann was born Carolyn Diann Patterson in Denison Texas on April 21st, 1944. She and her childhood family lived in various locations in Texas. She also spent brief time as a child in South Carolina where her daddy ran a logging business. In the late 1950s, she accepted Jesus Christ as her Personal Savior and received Eternal Life at Prairie Creek Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. Her family lived in Mesquite, Texas a suburb of Dallas. During this time Diann attended middle school and high school in Mesquite. In August 1959, she went on a church camping trip from Dallas to Yellowstone National Park and back, just before the famous earthquake that made Quake Lake. It was on this trip she met her future husband, Michael Mhoon.

While Diann was in high school, she was member of the F.H.A and was invited to join the National Honor Society. She graduated in 1963 and worked a year at Sears in Dallas before attending Moody Bible Institute in Chicago 1964 to 1965. She worked as a volunteer at the Navaho Indian Mission in New Mexico in the summer of 1965. In the late 1960s, she moved with family to a country home outside Sulphur Springs, Texas. There she worked at a weather balloon manufacturing plant. When her future husband, Michael Mhoon returned from Vietnam in June 1968, Diann and Michael began dating. Diann and Michael Mhoon married on September 20th, 1968 in Dallas, Texas. The two lived in San Antonio then Dallas. Michael finished college and with 3 sons, Michael, Matthew, and Marshall, they moved to Oklahoma, Denver, Kentucky, Helena in Montana, Palmdale in California and New Jersey where Michael retired as a meteorologist with National Weather Service.

Diann and her husband Michael have worked in ministry since leaving the National Weather Service in 1996. Michael and Diann, both, were commissioned as Southern Baptist lifetime missionaries with the North American Mission Board in May 2008. They served as Baptist Collegiate Ministry directors for the University of Montana Western in Dillon also since 2008.

Dianns father, Ernest Patterson passed away in 1968 while her mother, Mary Pauline, passed away in January 2005. Also three of her sisters and her youngest brother preceded Diann in death. Diann and Michaels youngest son, Marshall, was killed in 1993 at age 15. Survivors include 3 sisters, Mary Martin, Francis Harris, and Brenda Johnson and two brothers, Joe Patterson and Paul Patterson, all living in Texas.

She is survived in Montana by her sons, Michael Earl Mhoon, age 40 and Matthew Ernest Mhoon age 37 and Matthews wife, Anna, and grandson, Richard Hageman age 18, granddaughter Jorie Mhoon age 15, granddaughter Autumn Mhoon age 13, grandson Tyrone Hageman age 11, and granddaughter Gracie Mhoon age 9. She is also survived by her husband, Michael Edward Mhoon, age 63, in Dillon to whom she was married to for almost 42 years.

The world is much emptier without her while Heaven rejoices in her entry into Gods Kingdom!

Visitation will begin at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 6th at Calvary Baptist Church, 1225 Knight Street. Funeral services will be held at Calvary Baptist Church, 1225 Knight Street, Helena, Montana 59601 at 11:00 AM Wednesday July 7th, 2010. For information call church at 406-442-5149 or Anderson Stevenson Wilke Funeral Home, 650 Logan Street, Helena at 406-442-8520.

Family requests no flowers but memorial be sent in Dianns name to NORTH AMERICAN MISSION BOARD; subject: DILLON COLLEGIATE MINISTRIES, #9063; P.O. Box 116543 Atlanta, GA 30368-6543. Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting: www.stevensonandsons.com.