Deborah Maureen Loach, Treasurer of the Alabama PAS Chapter, died from cancer on May 25, 2023. She grew up in Lakewood, Ohio, and in high school, she participated in numerous music ensembles as a percussionist, including a Scottish pipe band, where they competed in Scotland. She also was a member of Roadshow, a Manhattan Transfer-style vocal jazz ensemble that won national awards including best in the country. Debi performed “Black Coffee” as a solo in her final performance with the group. After graduating with honors in 1988, she attended Hofstra University for one year. In 1989, she was accepted to the Manhattan School of Music, where she received her bachelor’s degree. She then attended Cleveland State University.

Debi met her husband, Rich Graber, at the Manhattan School of Music and moved to Florida with him in 1995, where they enjoyed freelancing careers. In 1999, Debi and Rich moved to New Orleans, where Rich won a job with the Louisiana Philharmonic. Debi played with that and other ensembles regularly during this time. They moved to Nashville in 2006, after Rich joined the Nashville Symphony. Debi played with the Nashville Symphony as well as the Huntsville Symphony, Alabama Symphony, and the Mobile Symphony, with whom she won a job in 2008. Debi started a chamber music group, Chamber Happenings, in 2020.

Debi also taught at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she ran the UAH percussion ensemble and steel pan ensemble, and taught the UAH percussion master and undergraduate collegiate students.