Dianne Elizabeth Tasker-Marques

Dianne Elizabeth Tasker-Marques was born June 3, 1979 in London, Ontario, Canada.  Named after our father’s aunt, she grew up in a loving home on a dairy – pork – beef farm in Kintore, Ontario in the Great Lakes region of south eastern Ontario, Canada. At the young age of 4 years, she and her family migrated to Pulaski, VA., and after almost three years her family settled down in North Eastern Tennessee for the remainder of her formative years. Dianne was blessed to grow up in beautiful pastoral abodes with horses, cattle, many dogs, and a variety of birds. She had great affection for animals and protecting their innocence.

She proudly graduated high school in 1998 from WCA -Washington College Academy. She went on to helping run her father’s medical practice two different times while in her twenties, and her mother and brother's business in the capacity as an Operations Manager and office manager. She gained international business experience and enjoyed the thrilling city of Toronto, Canada. Most of all, she enjoyed her time with extended family and the times she had with her cousins Deanna and Lauren, particularly as a young girl and teenager as well as her early twenties. Like most Taskers, she had the bug for travel and explored many countries, from Western Europe to Canada, the Caribbean, and Mexico, as well as Phoenix, AZ and a large portion of the United States. In the last years of her life, beside her love and life mate, Angelo, she traveled to Portugal several times. Of the many influences by her mother she loved to cook and enjoyed good food, spirits, and gatherings with friends. 

She met her loving partner and best friend, Angelo Marques from Portugal, while residing in NE TN where the two fell in love and became engaged to be married. The beautiful touching ceremony was held on top of Signal Mountain in April 2012. It was one of the greatest days of these two young people’s lives. They most enjoy being together at any time and cooking together and spending time with friends over a good meal and celebrating life.

Dianne was a loyal and loving friend, and extended that kindness to the animals in her life: her first dog a Pointer named Spirit, Golden Retriever Amber, Jude, Fox, Duke ( Jack Russell Terrier ), MG, Paige, Morgan, Kelly and Churchill and her current dogs, Shizam and Nietzcha. She loved them all, and knew she wanted to help animals as much as she could. She became a veterinary technician, the only one of her siblings to truly, officially gain a secondary education on her own terms, and joined the team as a veterinary technician for the Animal Hospital at Signal Mountain in 2010. She loved entertaining, cooking, traveling, and gardening. Her favorite aspects of working at AHSM were helping animals and the wonderful people she worked with who she considers to be her family.

Dianne was born 6 weeks premature and as a result spent a lot of time in London's Children's Hospital at the beginning stages of her life. Over the last 15 months, she fought a tough battle with Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC). She fought valiantly and showed immense strength and courage. Always keeping positive and telling cancer it “messed with the wrong bitch”. She was positive to the last, constantly being strong, trying to protect and shelter family and friends from her struggle. She succumbed to complications on Monday, July 18, 2016.

Dianne is preceded in death by her father, Dr. John James Joseph Tasker. She is survived by her devoted and loving husband Angelo. They have 2 wonderful dogs, Shizam (a 9 year old Great Dane lab mix) and Nietzcha (a 2 year old border collie). She is also survived by her mother, Nancy E. Tasker, her brothers Brent and Barron, and many beautiful and extraordinary nieces on both sides of the family; two from her brothers and two from Angelo's siblings in Portugal. She was especially loving of her Niece, Hanna.  Throughout her life, she was loved and supported by her amazing group of friends; some of them being The Reardons, Stewarts and Claudia Mandelli and Kevin Kerner, to name a few. Along with her newest family, Angelo’s parents and family in Portugal. She was so happy to be part of the loving Marques family.

Although she lived the majority of her life in Tennessee, Dianne was a loyal and proud Canadian.

Dianne, we miss you terribly. You were taken from us in the prime of your life, and we will never forget the immense impact you’ve had on all our lives.  You had forged and indelible relationship with so many people, you will never be forgotten. I love you my sister. You were missed before you were gone. You are forever in our hearts and minds. 

A memorial will be held on Monday, July 25 from 6pm - 7pm at Signal Point on Signal Mountain.

 In lieu of flowers, her family would appreciate charitable donations in her name to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. 

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