H. Grayce (Petrick) Ezarik, 93, of Washington, Pennsylvania, passed away peacefully at home on July 12, 2026.<\/p>\n
Grayce was born on March 1, 1933, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to William and Helen Petrick. On January 30, 1951, she married Stephen Joseph Ezarik, and the two shared 63 years of marriage until his passing in 2014.<\/p>\n
Incredibly hardworking and endlessly creative, Grayce was an artist and photographer whose talents spanned painting, calligraphy, and digital art. She worked for many years as a florist, bringing her artistry and eye for beauty to every arrangement she made.<\/p>\n
She also loved history and spent years devoted to genealogy and documenting the family\u2019s story for generations to come. She raised her two children, Karen and Stephen, and later helped care for her three granddaughters in their early childhood.<\/p>\n
Grayce is survived by her daughter, Karen Berchin; her son, Stephen Ezarik (the late Michelle Ezarik); her grandchildren, Andy (Heather) Berchin, Michael (Jonee) Berchin, Justine Ezarik, Breanne (Bryan) Baker, and Jenna Ezarik; her great-granddaughters, Makenna Maine Berchin and Brynn Baker; and her sisters, Alice Schaffer, Judie Rabatin, Carolyn Baltich, and Colleen Lantz.<\/p>\n
She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Stephen Joseph Ezarik, in 2014; her daughter-in-law, Michelle Ezarik, in 2023; and her brother, William Petrick, in 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"H. Grayce (Petrick) Ezarik, 93, of Washington, Pennsylvania, passed away peacefully at home on July 12, 2026. Grayce…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-245589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}