The Hospital family was deeply saddened on the news long-time Hospital champion, Diane Lorenz, passed away in June.

Diane served as the Chair of the Hospital Board (then known as the Cobourg District General Hospital) at the time this Foundation was founded in 1993. She, along with her late husband Ed, went on to become one of the NHH Foundation’s fiercest supporters.

“She always had the greatest trust and faith in everything we set out to accomplish,” shares Rhonda Cunningham, NHH Foundation CEO. “When we first launched the annual gala in 2000, Diane and Ed were in the room. Diane told me she felt her gala days were long behind her, but she came out and supported anyway to ensure this new initiative got off to a strong start. She was a believer.”

In honour of the significant bequest left to the Hospital in her Will, the Foundation Board has approved the creation of the Ed & Diane Lorenz Endowment Fund to ensure the hospital – a cause they believed so deeply in – would annually receive financial support in the Lorenz name in perpetuity.

Diane’s close friend, Laura McCracken Ebbrell shared that” Diane was a woman ahead of her time. Hers was a life well lived.”

Thank you, Diane, for all you have done and will continue to do through your legacy gift, to support health care services in Northumberland.