Deb Di Bernardo. Picture by Roast Home. Used with permission.
Deborah “Deb” Di Bernardo, the beloved founding father of Spokane, Washington-based roasting firm Roast Home, died this week on the age of 70 after a 3rd time dealing with most cancers.
Di Bernardo is remembered as a fun-loving but deeply passionate advocate for optimistic social and environmental change. She was often known as an enthusiastic consumer of the F-word, an endearing trait that impressed Roast Home’s F-Bomb chilly brew model.
“She was a magical unicorn of a human and there’s an enormous hole within the universe with out her presence — that’s for positive,” Aaron Jordan, Roast Home co-owner and a longtime colleague of Di Bernardo’s, informed DCN.
Di Bernardo along with her canine, Lucy. Picture by Roast Home. Used with permission.
Di Bernardo made Aaron and Allison Jordan managing companions of Roast Home in 2020 following a earlier most cancers prognosis. In 2023, whereas additionally experiencing most cancers, Di Bernardo offered her different espresso enterprise, the First Avenue Espresso store, based on a Spokesman-Evaluation report.
“Deb — founder, power of nature, boss woman, and guiding gentle — left this planet on December fifteenth, leaving us poor bastards to hold on with out her,” the Jordans wrote on Instagram yesterday. “She made an immense affect on this world that may resonate by time and house eternally — particularly within the lives she touched by this stunning house at Roast Home.”
Di Bernardo and her husband, Jim Haynes, based Roast Home in Spokane in 2010, specializing in high-quality and organic-certified coffees. The corporate has saved sustainability at its core since its inception.
As soon as, when portray the partitions of the roastery and tasting room on Cleveland Ave. in Spokane, Di Bernardo wrote, “I won’t change the world… However I can strive.”
Di Bernardo with Aaron Jordan. Picture by Roast Home. Used with permission.
“Deb was relentlessly devoted to sustainable meals, natural espresso, supporting conservation, and caring for everybody in her life with incomprehensible generosity,” the Jordans wrote. “She handed surrounded by family members — together with her canine, Lucy, after all. Deb and Jim have entrusted Roast Home to us (Allison and Aaron Jordan) after we’ve labored by their facet over the past 12 years. We’re deeply honored to protect and proceed her legacy. Whereas we’d not change the world both, we positive are going to strive with the identical vigor that she did!”
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