SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Diane D. Vaillancourt, loving wife, mother, sister and friend, passed from this world on Aug. 2 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., after a courageous battle with cancer.

Diane was born on Sept. 15, 1949, in Auburn. She graduated from Edward Little High School in Auburn and Weaver Airline School in Kansas City, Mo.

She later became a gym teacher at Holy Cross School in Lewiston. In 1987, the Vaillancourt family moved from Maine to Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where she has lived ever since. She became a Mary Kay consultant in the early 1990s and was recently named the winner of the Miss Go Give Award for her unit covering New York and Vermont.

Her proudest and most fulfilling job over the years, however, was that of being a mom. She was very proud of her family and cherished every moment she had with them. She will be deeply missed by her family; friends at St. Clement’s Church; and her ladies at Mary Kay. She enjoyed camping with her husband, gardening, time spent by the ocean and time with her children and grandchildren. Her exuberant spirit and love of life will live on for generations to come.

She is survived by her loving and faithful husband of 36 years, Richard J. Vaillancourt of Saratoga Springs; her daughter, Penny L. Main and her husband, Patrick; her granddaughter, Molly; and grandson, Michael, all of Brunswick, Ohio; her son, Jason J. Vaillancourt and his wife, Melissa, of Portland, Ore.; her parents, Albert and Lucille Carrier of Auburn; she will be deeply missed by her nine brothers and sisters, Terry Demers of Lewiston, Laurette Gosselin and her husband, Roger, of Lewiston, Raymond Carrier and his wife, Polo, of Bourg-en-Bresse, France, Pauline Gregoire and her husband, Paul, of Sabattus, Marc Carrier and his wife, Jean, of Woconia, Minn., Jean Dore and her husband, Steve, of Auburn, Jeanette Cook of Woodbridge, Va., Louise Robinson and her husband, Steve, of Poland, and Louis Carrier and his wife, Sylvia, of North Haven.