Davonna Lividini Patch

Davonna Lividini Patch, who excelled at audio-visual production and graphic design and was a loving daughter, sister, and wife. She died suddenly, at age 56, on Sunday morning, October 9, 2022 in her Toledo, Ohio home after a long ordeal with multiple sclerosis.

Davonna was born in 1966 in Dearborn, Michigan; daughter of Leonello and Janet (Lemonovich) Lividini. She graduated from Novi High School in Novi, Michigan, class of 1984. Davonna continued her education and obtained technical certification from the Specs Howard School of Media Arts in Southfield. She later completed a bachelor’s degree in broadcast communications from Siena Heights College in Adrian. She had a multi-year career as a cable television producer in Oakland County, where she also made many lifelong friends. After an attempt to start up a private business proved unsuccessful, she held several clerical jobs before worsening MS symptoms brought her out-of-home working days to an end.

She was cherished for her cheer and optimism in the face of adversity and during her homebound years recorded, edited, and produced a series of video blogs, "The Chronicles of Nani," about living with advanced MS. She loved baseball and traveled first with her mother and later her husband, David S. Patch, to many major-league, minor-league, and independent ballparks, mainly in the Midwest and East, including attending numerous Toledo Mud Hens games. She and David, whom she met in 2005, also took many trips to watch and photograph trains in different places until her illness made such travel nearly impossible. She had diverse musical tastes and, in younger years, sewed many of her own clothes as well as the costumes for a Detroit-area band in which her brother, Dave, played drums.

Davonna is survived by her devoted husband of 14 years, David Patch; her father Leonello Lividini, her brother Dave Lividini; and her nieces, Torine and Marina Lividini, upon whom she doted like a second mother. She was preceded in death by her mother Janet Lividini.

Memorial visitation will be held Saturday, October 15, 2022 from 11am until 1pm with a memorial service beginning at 1pm at Casterline Funeral Home 122 West Dunlap, Northville, Michigan. In lieu of flowers the families suggest tributes to Paws & Whiskers Cat Shelter in Toledo or the National Multiple Sclerosis Society .