The news that Diana Denman died April 17 at a meeting of the Philadelphia Society was not only sad but somewhat unbelievable for her legions of friends. Although she was 91, those who knew the lady from San Antonio, Texas, through more than two generations of conservative causes and campaigns just could not believe that she was gone.

“Just call me Diana!” she would admonish fellow conservatives of all ages when they addressed her as “Mrs. Denman.” She knew and remembered them all, through causes and campaigns ranging from the early days of the modern Republican Party in the Lone Star State to crusades for freedom fighters everywhere — from the anti-Communist contras in Nicaragua to the embattled Ukrainians under siege from Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

“I supported President Trump but I get very nervous when he and [Vice President JD] Vance send signals the U.S. will cut and run from Ukraine,” Denman told a group of friends she had “commanded” to join her for dinner earlier this year at her beloved Metropolitan Club in Washington DC. To underscore her point, she invited two young women from Ukraine she had recently befriended to join the group and discuss their situation.

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