Diana Lee Fenton of Princeton N.J., died at the University Medical Center on May 1.   Born Diana Charlotte Lee, she was the only surviving child of the late Frederick William Parkin Lee and Marjorie Mullins Lee.  She grew up in Morristown, N.J., attended local schools, and graduated from the Kent Place School in Summit, N.J. Throughout her life, Mrs. Fenton was known for baking pies for prison inmates, taking meals to sick friends, volunteering at hospitals, sponsoring children overseas, organizing VNA rummage sales and serving on boards of directors.   She was deeply involved in the Episcopal Church as she taught Sunday school, sang in the choir and sat on the Vestry of St. Bernard’s Church in Bernardsville, N.J., the town where she raised her family.  Later in life, as a widow, she moved to the Princeton area, and immediately became an active member of Trinity Church where she  volunteered at the parish offices, helping with Altar Guild duties, and taking communion, as a lay minister, to shut-ins.

Mrs. Fenton was a model for local department stores as a teenager and sang in a Radio Choir in Manhattan.  She and her late husband George sang in local musical groups and made frequent trips to Lincoln Center to attend the opera.  She loved to cook and garden.

Mrs. Fenton was a frequent visitor to Duxbury, coming every year for Christmas and again each summer to visit her son Bruce, daughter-in-law Misty and grandchildren Wes and Liam Rutter. 

Mrs. Fenton was married twice: to the late Donald Rutter, an inventor and engineer, and to  the late George Fenton, Jr., a noted New Jersey architect. She leaves her five children and step-children, Stephanie Greene of Skillman N.J., Bruce Rutter of Duxbury, Alison Rutter of Califon N.J., Archibald Fenton of Hershey, Penn., and Charles Fenton of Summit N.J.; three grandsons and step-grandsons, Michel Mayhew of Ottawa, Ontario; Westley Rutter of San Francisco, Calif., and Liam Rutter of Boston.

A funeral service will be held at Trinity Church in Princeton, N.J. at 10 a.m. on May 14. A reception will be held at the Nassau Club immediately after the service.  A private family burial will be held in Bernardsville, N.J.

Friends are encouraged to bring something from their own gardens to the funeral service.  Charitable donations in Mrs. Fenton’s name may be made to the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation.