| Graduation Year | Class of 1980 |
| Date of Birth | Feb 03, 1960 |
| Date of Passing | Feb 24, 2013 |
| About | Diane Mae (Leingang) Gensburger, 53, Mandan, left this earth on Feb. 24, 2013, after a five-year battle with cancer. Mass of Christian burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 1, at Christ the King Catholic Church, Mandan, with the Rev. Johnson Kuriappilly as celebrant. Burial will be at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Weigel Funeral Home, Mandan, with a parish vigil at 7 p.m. Visitation will continue at the church one hour prior to the service on Saturday. Diane was born to Joe J. and Agatha (Berger) Leingang on Feb. 3, 1960, in Mandan, the youngest of 11 kids. She started working in 1978 at St. Alexius in the Dietary Department. After graduation from Mandan High School in 1980, she did the bar scene with her girlfriends from work until 1983, when she found her soul mate, Bruce, at an outdoor celebration. Diane married Bruce Gensburger on Dec. 27, 1985. Diane and Bruce have two kids: Holly Kay, 24 and Kyle Ryan, 21. Diane spent her working years cooking and serving food at many places, the last being Fried's Restaurant, and providing daycare for her niece, Michelle. She loved cats and babies. Diane fulfilled her lifelong dream of going on a cruise to Alaska in 2011, which she loved and will always remember. She received her first precious gift from Holly on Dec. 20, 2005 - Alexis Jade. Grandma and Alexis spent many days and nights together, loving it most of the time. Diane's last waking moments on Saturday were seeing her second precious gift, this one from her son, Kyle and his fiancee, Alison - Ethan Anthony, born just two days earlier. Diane will be lovingly remembered and deeply missed by her husband, Bruce, Mandan; her daughter, Holly, Bismarck; her son, Kyle, Bismarck; her grandchildren, Alexis Beckler and Ethan Anthony, both of Bismarck; and her siblings, Angie Bader, Pierre, S.D., Andrew (Terry) Leingang, Bismarck, Janice (George) Belohlavek, Tim (Bonnie) Leingang and Linda (Alvin) Skager, all of Mandan, Thomas (Leann) Leingang, Snohomish, Wash., Phyllis Dirk, Mandan, Edward Leingang, Reeder, and Walter (LaDonna) Leingang, Bismarck. Diane was preceded in death by her parents, Joe and Agatha Leingang; her father-in-law and mother-in-law, Herbert and Genevieve (Wirtz) Gensburger; one sister, Marlene (Dave) Wetch; and two brothers-in-law, John Bader and Roger Dirk. The family invites you for lunch and fellowship at Christ the King in the Agnes Larkin Activity Center following the burial service at 1 p.m. Go to www.weigelfuneral.com to sign the online guest book and view flower and tribute photos. |
