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Donna grew up in a quiet neighborhood in a suburb of Cleveland. She was just in the fourth grade when they moved there and her grandparents lived upstairs.

A few years later, her mother was very ill and passed away. Donna was 12 and her brother was just 10 but her father soon remarried Mary, Donna’s stepmother, who went on to become her strength.

“And, by the grace of God, if we didn’t have her, I don’t think we would have made it through,” Donna shared in 2023. However, she had a traditional father who wanted her to follow the vision he had for her, and sports wasn’t a part of that. Neither was higher education.

He wanted Donna to attend secretarial school, but Mary helped her go to college and earn a degree in broadcast communications from Ohio University.

With that, she became the first person in her family to graduate from college. Soon she went back to school for her masters and ended up with a career in banking. But there is so much more to this story.