Deborah Debord

Deborah DeBord

Deborah grew up in the oil patches of Louisiana and the bayous of Houston, Texas, so she beat feet to the academic cool of the University of Texas at Austin as soon as she could. She liked it there so much she stayed until she'd earned her PhD. She taught English to foreign students and Spanish to high school students, spent summers in Mexico, backpacked through Central America, and when she'd had enough made her way north to teach ESL at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where she met her second husband Jim. Together they visited scores of countries on all but one continent, and they realized a shared dream of living in the mountains. Deborah refused to let her blindness hold her back from anything, and she was so well adapted to a sighted world that many acquaintances were unaware that she was impaired at all. She was an accomplished writer as well as an educator, a gourmet cook, an avid reader, a consummate storyteller and a zany humorist. Her friends remember her as brave and irreverent, intuitive and compassionate, and an absolute blast to be around.

Deborah is survived by her husband Jim Ramsay of Pinewood Springs, Colorado, her brother Steve DeBord of San Antonio, Texas, and her sister Kathryn DeBord of Houston.

Donations can be made in her honor at World Central Kitchen,
https://donate.wck.org/.