DAVE MOSIER/
independent editor
LIMA Former Van Wert resident and businesswoman Donna Grimm has been named one of the 12 recipients of the Lima area’s 2021 Jefferson Award. The award is given to those whose volunteer work and public service are above and beyond the norm.
Donna Grimm
Now living in Wapakoneta, Grimm and her husband, W.W. “Wally” Grimm, came to Van Wert in the 1970s when Mr. Grimm was named principal of Van Wert High School.
For 35 years, Donna was employed by Community Health Professionals, first as a nurse and then helping lead the company as CEO to an expansion that now includes offices in nine northwest/west central Ohio counties, a hospice center in Defiance, and three senior day care facilities.
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Local businessman and former two-term Van Wert mayor Don Farmer died Tuesday at a Fort Wayne, Indiana, hospice center. He was 82.
Former mayor Don Farmer during a Van Wert City Council meeting.
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Farmer, a Pennsylvania native, later moved to California, where he graduated from Fresno High School and earned a business degree from Los Angeles State College.
He later moved to Van Wert, where he owned and operated Mac’s Delicatessen and The Paint Bucket, as well as PAVE Communications.
Farmer served two non-consecutive four-year terms as mayor, from 2004-2007 and from 2012-2015. He also served several terms on Van Wert City Council, representing the First and Second Wards and as an at-large councilman.