When they pass away, finding the right words to memorialize them isn't easy. There are death notices in the newspaper that tell about their careers and funeral home viewings. Those are useful, but they don't add dimension to your loved ones' lives. As a memorial, they fall flat.

PittsburghObituaries.net can tell your loved ones' life stories with dimension.


PittsburghObituaries.net  uses classic reporting and writing techniques to develop a word portrait of the person you want to remember. The obituary is then posted at PGHLives.com, where the stories about your friends and relatives live on, telling the world how, and why, your loved one is special.

And they also tell that story in a place where Pittsburghers will go. As a Pittsburgher, you know that is important. We Pittsburghers seek each other out, no matter where we are.


PittsburghObituaries.net, and PGHLives.com, are owned and operated
by Margi Shrum, a lifelong resident of Pittsburgh and its suburbs. She is a writer/editor with 25 years experience at the city's newspapers.

She will interview survivors to gather the information that she will write
into a life story, not just a list of details, about your friend, colleague or relative.

Was this a person who loved chocolate chip cookies and had two every day,
as she wrote in a column for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette?

Did he or she spend countless hours volunteering for a church?
Did just his packing a lunch for you every school day mean the world to you?

Details tell the story, and Ms. Shrum knows the questions to ask and the words to use to keep warm memories alive.

Why a local obituary Web site?

There are many national obituary Web sites, but only PittsburghObituaries.net is about Pittsburgh people. 

Would a Chicago native know what the South Side Slopes are? What "dahntahn" means? That finally snagging a Steelers season ticket isn't just a footnote in your father's life story?

Contracting a custom-written obituary through PittsburghObituaries.net is easy. See the contact information and terms at left.

Pittsburgh's great life stories...well told.