Dianna Culver-Gepner

Graveside services for Dianna Culver-Gepner, 77, of Knoxville, will be held Saturday,
September 6, 2025, at 11:30 a.m. at the Bellefountaine Cemetery in Tracy. Following
the service, a luncheon will be shared at the Tracy Fire Station.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Dianna’s family in care of Pierschbacher
Funeral Home 110 N Harlan St Knoxville, IA 50138, to be designated at a later date.
Dianna was born on July 14, 1948, to Marvin “Gene” and Peggy Whitten-Culver in
Oskaloosa, Iowa. Tracy, Iowa is where Dianna and her siblings grew up. She attended
Tracy Elementary and Junior High at Twin Cedars. Then graduated from Albia High
School, with the class of 1966.
On October 8, 1971, in Des Moines, Iowa, Dianna married Don Gepner, who was the
love of her life. They spent 47 great years together until Don sadly passed away in
2019. The two made many memories together before his passing.
Don’s job took them to several towns in Iowa before he was later transferred to Young
America, Minnesota, where Dianna worked as an underwriter for an insurance
company. They eventually moved back to Iowa and lived on their property outside of
Tracy on the Des Moines River for many years. During that time Dianna worked at
Smith’s Furniture Store in Knoxville as their bookkeeper. Then Don received a job offer
that moved them to Brooklyn, Iowa, and this was when Dianna started working for
Roland & Dielman CPA’S in Grinnell. She retired on April 30, 2014.
The family first moved her to Homestead in Knoxville, but unfortunately, she was later
transferred to hospice care at Westridge.
There are many things Dianna’s family will remember her for. She was a true outdoors
woman, she loved to garden, go camping, fishing, and four-wheeling. She was reserved
and quiet, enjoyed reading, and watching sports (especially the Green Bay Packers and
Hawkeyes), she never missed a game!
Dianna will be missed by her sisters, Judy DeJong and Regina (Mark) Bemisdarfer, her
many nieces and nephews, extended family and friends.
She is preceded by her husband, Don Gepner and her brother, Lorentis Clyde Culver.