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 going through most cancers.
Di Bernardo is remembered as a fun-loving but deeply passionate advocate for constructive social and environmental change. She was also called an enthusiastic person 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 certain,” Aaron Jordan, Roast Home co-owner and a longtime colleague of Di Bernardo’s, instructed DCN.
Di Bernardo together 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, in response to a Spokesman-Evaluate report.
“Deb — founder, drive of nature, boss girl, and guiding mild — 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 impression on this world that may resonate by means of time and area ceaselessly — particularly within the lives she touched by means of this stunning area 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 stored 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 may not change the world… However I can attempt.”
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 aspect during the last 12 years. We’re deeply honored to protect and proceed her legacy. Whereas we would not change the world both, we certain are going to attempt with the identical vigor that she did!”
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