Diana McNeil

DIANA MCNEIL, 74, OF HUDSON, NORTH CAROLINA, PASSED AWAYPEACEFULLY ON NOVEMBER 26, 2025, AT WAKE FOREST MEDICAL CENTER. SHE WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 20, 1950, TO WILLIE LAXTON AND HELEN LAXTON, AND LIVED A LIFE MARKED BY LOVE, FAITH, AND DEVOTION TO HER FAMILY. DIANA WAS A DEVOUT CHRISTIAN WHOSE UNWAVERING FAITH GUIDED HER THROUGHOUT HER LIFE. DIANA DEDICATED OVER 40 YEARS TO NURSING, INCLUDING 19 YEARS AS A HOSPICE NURSE, WHERE HER COMPASSION AND CARE TOUCHED COUNTLESS LIVES.

SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER BELOVED HUSBAND, HANSEL MCNEIL. 

DIANA IS SURVIVED BY HER TWO CHILDREN: SON JOHN MCNEIL AND HIS WIFE SARETHA MCNEIL, AND DAUGHTER LAURA CHURCH AND HER HUSBAND HARLEY CHURCH. SHE WAS ALSO A LOVING MOTHER TO CARRIE MCNEIL. DIANA WAS A PROUD GRANDMOTHER TO SARA BAKER, TABATHA MCNEIL, SAMANTHA MCNEIL, EMMA CLONTZ, SAMARA MCNEIL, NOAH JOHNSON, AND ISABELLA JOHNSON, WHO BROUGHT IMMENSE JOY TO HER LIFE.

DIANA IS ALSO SURVIVED BY HER SISTER, MELINDA JANE COLE, AND BROTHER-IN-LAW, GERALD COLE; HER NIECE, AMANDA COLE POLEN; AND GREAT-NIECE AND GREAT-NEPHEW, GIANNA POLEN AND COLE POLEN, ALONG WITH MANY EXTENDED FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS WHO WILL CHERISH HER MEMORY. SHE LOVED HER DOGS, BRANDY AND TUCKER, WHO WERE HER FAITHFUL COMPANIONS.

SHE WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR HER KINDNESS, STRENGTH, AND STEADFAST FAITH. HER LEGACY LIVES ON IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO KNEW AND LOVED HER.

FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD AT 3:00PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2025 AT EVANS FUNERAL SERVICE.  THE FAMILY WILL RECEIVE FRIENDS ONE HOUR PRIOR TO THE SERVICE.  BURIAL WILL FOLLOW SERVICE AT MT.ZION BAPTIST.