Diana Kay Magee (Mitchell)

July 10, 1949 – August 14, 2026

Diana Kay Magee (Mitchell) passed away late on August 14, 2026, at Silverado Memory Care in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. She was 77 years old.

Diana was born July 10, 1949, in Rossville, Kansas, to Theodore and Honora Mitchell (Karnowski). She was the second of four children, along with her siblings Daryl, Debbie, and Darwin Mitchell. She grew up surrounded by an extraordinarily large extended family. With both of her parents coming from large families, Diana at one time had nearly 90 first cousins.

Following high school, Diana attended radiology school at the University of Kansas and began what would become a long and accomplished career as an X-ray technologist. She was exceptionally skilled at what she did, spending much of her career assisting physicians during surgical procedures. She took great pride in her work and was respected for her knowledge, precision, and ability. She continued working until her retirement in 2021.

Her career also gave her a few stories worth telling. A lifelong and devoted Kansas Jayhawks basketball fan, Diana performed X-rays for members of the KU basketball team during the Roy Williams era. Over the years, she also had the opportunity to work with a number of Kansas City Chiefs players. For someone who loved her Jayhawks and Chiefs, those moments were pretty special.

But as accomplished as Diana was in her career, family was the center of her world. She was married to Harry I. Magee for 57 years. Together they built a life, a family, and decades of memories before Harry passed away in January of this year. Just seven months and seven days later, Diana followed him.

Diana was the mother of Heather Magee, her eldest, and Patrick Magee, her youngest. Her only grandchild, Bridgett Neff-Hickman, held an enormous place in her heart, and the arrival of her great-grandson, Roman Hickman, brought her another beautiful title: great-grandmother. Bridgett and Roman were the absolute stars of her eyes.

Everything Diana did, in one way or another, came back to the people she loved. She was a profoundly selfless mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother— the kind of woman who gave without keeping score. Her family was never simply part of her life. They were her life.

Diana also knew how to make things beautiful.

She loved gardening and followed the seasons through what was growing and blooming around her. She was a lifelong reader and possessed a wonderful creative spirit that found its way into art, crafts, flower arranging, holiday decorating, and especially her home. She loved her home deeply and poured herself into making it a place of beauty, warmth, and belonging.

Her Catholic faith was a deeply rooted part of who she was. Diana loved God with all of her being, and her faith remained an important and enduring presence throughout her life.

Diana's life cannot be measured simply by the years she lived, the career she built, the beauty she created, or even the many things she loved. Its truest measure is found in the family she gave herself to so completely.

After 57 years of marriage, two children, a granddaughter, a great-grandson, gardens full of flowers, shelves full of books, a home she loved, a career she excelled in, and a lifetime spent caring for others, Diana leaves behind a family who had the extraordinary privilege of calling her Mom, Grandma, Great-Grandma, and ours.