Donna Avnaim (1957 - 2009)

Chamber Director Karen Wintrow wrote in an email today:

I’m sorry to tell you that local resident and business owner Donna Avnaim passed away on Saturday at an area hospital. Donna, owner of Déjà Vu, was an active member of the Chamber and Chamber Marketing Committee and attended almost all meetings and events, even when faced with health issues that would have overwhelmed most of us. It is my understanding that there will be a service at Jackson Lytle and I will let you know the schedule as soon as I learn something.

Donna’s family is clearing out her shop right now. They would like anyone who has consignment items there and are interested in getting them back to stop by the shop or contact them in some way.


She followed up with a copy of the funeral home obituary:

AVNAIM, Donna M.,51, of Yellow Springs, passed away Sunday February 8,2009. She was born May 4, 1957, a daughter of Ralph Avnaim and Micki Ross Adams in Limestone, ME. Donna was a 1975 Tecumseh graduate and grew upin Medway. She was a long time resident of Yellow Springs where she hadmany friends and was a member of the Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce. She was a M.D.A. and Sicsa volunteer. Donna is survived by her siblings,Mitchell (Ginny) Avnaim, Peter (Kathy) Avnaim, Scott Avnaim, Tracy(Robert) Schaffner, and Jeri Avnaim; nieces and nephews, Luke and SarinaAvnaim, Nicholas, Anthony, Jacquelyn, and Leah Avnaim, Scott and StacySchaffner; aunt, Ellie Podberesky; good friends, Pat and John Reising. She is preceded in death by her parents; aunt, Claudia Ross. Friends maygreet family from 10AM until time of memorial service at 11AM SaturdayFebruary 14, 2009 in the JACKSON LYTLE WILLIAMS Funeral Home, YellowSprings. Interment of cremains will follow in the Glen Forrest Cemetery.