In Memoriam: Deb Mann

debbie-mannDeb Mann: 1969-2015

It is with great sadness we let you know that Deb Mann, a dear friend, and long-time DBSA-Boston member, passed away unexpectedly on April 9, 2015, from a pulmonary embolism.

Deb was a facilitator for the Women’s, the Bi-Polar, and the Depression support groups at DBSA-Boston. She served on both the Share/Care Committee and the Board of Directors.  She also was our Chair and Walk Captain for the NAMI Boston Walk for a number of years. The DBSA-Boston group walked in her memory on May 16th, 2015.

A two-hour Remembrance group was lead by Chuck Weinstein, CPS on April 15. Please read Dennis Hagler’s moving elegy for Deb.

She was the daughter of Dick and Lois Mann of Hingham, formerly of Walpole.  She is also survived by her sister, Cory Mann Wieneke, and her husband, David of Wakefield and their two daughters, Kate and Molly, her twin sister, Joanna of Norwood, and her brother, Jeffrey. of Northampton.

Deb graduated from Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, NH in 1988 and earned a BA in psychology from Curry College in 1995. For the past ten years, she has worked as a counselor for Bay Cove Human Services in Jamaica Plain.

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