Marianne Dietzel

Marianne Dietzel was an early childhood educator before her daughter’s death in a car accident in 1996. Since then she has become a hospice bereavement coordinator. She also plays music for healing and transition on the lyre as a Certified Music Practitioner and educates families in caring for their own deceased. She is an avid gardener and enjoys hiking, biking, camping, cooking, and singing. Marianne and her husband Dennis live on a one-acre homestead in St. Paul, Minnesota. They have two grown sons.

Marianne with her editors, Becky Bohan and Nancy Manahan

Dennis, Soren, and Kevin

Marianne playing for a patient at Our Lady of Good Counsel Home