Daranee Tinochang Dicker of Riverside, CT died on August 23 of pneumonia. Daranee was born in 1945 in Thailand to a pious mother and a bold father and Dar too was endowed with these qualities. As a child Dar had an affinity for school and throughout her life pursued knowledge. In 1971 Dar joined her brother in San Francisco, which made possible in 1976 marriage to Phil and their love always sustained them. Observing the development of their treasured son Kit, led Dar to become a Montessori teacher at the Whitby School.
Dar was proficient at yoga and performed with Thai traditional music ensembles on the Khim, a type of dulcimer. Dar was at peace with herself thereby gracious to everyone and calmly meticulous in all she did, raising the mundane to nearly art. With forty years of effort Dar became an astute interpreter of Buddhist thought and a skilled meditator, recognized by her peers and senior monks here and in Thailand.
Dar will be missed by her husband’s brothers and cousins, Richard (Ellen Pall), Jim (Anna), Rodd Leeds (Ilene), Kathy Glasser (Jeff) and Cody Sokolski (Marci Dodds) and her sibling’s children, especially Laong Cayom and Vilai Khumkaew.
For her husband and son may they come to realize that in the decades of their lives entwining, a graft of Dar’s ways, small and large, has taken hold to each of you and through these Dar will always be with you.
