Obituary Stories category, Page 39

When Mary Mizikar was young, she watched her mother care for her ailing grandmother. The experience inspired Mizikar to spend her life looking after others. Eventually it would be her turn to care for her mother, as well as her husband and a friend with diabetes. “She was absolutely saintly,”...

John Plischke often found himself in nature either hunting or fishing — but mainly surrounded by mushrooms. As founding member and past president of the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club, Plischke worked to bring other mushroom fanatics together as one of the first fungus-based organizations in the area, but not without...

Deborah Kosor of Ligonier remembers going on Sunday drives in her father’s Chevy Chevelle, and listening to eight-track oldies as she and her siblings fought over who would get to sit on “the hump” in the back seat. She remembers waiting for him to come home from work at Morgan...

Mary Ellen Beres was a champion of people with disabilities before disability rights was a national priority. Mrs. Beres was a student support counselor and professor for special populations at Westmoreland County Community College for 30 years, retiring in 2015. During her career, she worked to make WCCC a more...