DIANA TEMPLE MEMORIAL TONIGHT
NEW YORK — A memorial reception will be held tonight for Diana Temple, a widely respected and often quoted cosmetics financial analyst, who died Nov. 22.
The reception will take place tonight from 6-9 p.m. at her former residence, 505 East 79th St., apartment 19E, in Manhattan. Temple had died of kidney failure following a brief illness, according to her sister Marilyn Tipping. Temple was 54.
She had started her own financial consulting firm, called Temple & Associates, after leaving Salomon Bros. in 1997 as the firm was be”We have tried different things, but our biggest opportunity has always been our core business,” said Kahn “We are exiting our auxiliary businesses to focus on our Delia’s brand.”
ing acquired by Travelers Group. At Salomon Bros. she had been a director of the stock research department and specialist in the cosmetics and tobacco industries. Before joining Salomon Bros. in 1981, Temple had worked at Wertheim & Co. Inc. and H.C. Wainright & Co.
Temple’s husband George Trimble died in March 1997. She is survived by her sister, Marilyn Tipping and two nephews, Donald and Greyson Tipping.