Dianna Lynn VanCleave, of Campbellsville, KY., the daughter of Nannie (Porter) McKay and the late Leroy Bridgewater, was born August 22, 1966 in Campbellsville and departed this life on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 in Elizabethtown at the Baptist Health Hardin. She was 59 years of age.
She was a former employee of Kmart, Walmart, Dollar Tree and Frost Arnett and attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Campbellsville.
Survivors include her mother: Nannie McKay; her children: Takara, Chris and Natasha Bridgewater, Jamarcus VanCleave and wife DeNika, Daesean VanCleave and companion Taliyah Hazelwood.
Also two sisters and a brother: Janice Hernandez and husband Victor, Nancy Pettigrew and husband Arthur and George Bridgewater and wife Barbette; eleven grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.
Besides her father, she was preceded in death by her step-father: Emmett McKay.
The funeral service for Dianna VanCleave will be Friday, October 24, 2025 at 1:00 P.M. in the chapel of the L.R. Petty Funeral Home with burial in the Our Lady of Perpetual Catholic Church Cemetery.
Deacon Jimmy Richerson and Doretha Sanders will be officiating.
Family requests visitation after 11:00 A.M. Friday until time for the service.
Memorials are suggested to the Breast Cancer Awareness Fund and can be made at the funeral home.