Eleanor Kay Stutzman Richards\u201dKay\u201d, aged 87 of Washington, PA passed away into the arms of her Lord on August 14, 2026 after a brief illness. She was surrounded by her devoted and loving husband and family.\u00a0 Kay was born in Johnstown, PA and spent her formative years at The Christian Home. She was a daughter of the late Agnes Adele States Stutzman and William Jay Stutzman III.<\/p>\n
She is survived by her husband of nearly 70 years, Ronald Andrew Richards, Her children Ronald A. Jr. (Lynn), Leslie S. Schultz, Jeffrey A. (Brenda), and Beth A. (Alice). Her grandchildren Robin Gaussa (Neil), Matthew Richards (Brittany), Jason Richards (Morgan), Lindsay Allen (Mike), Erin Clark (Tim), Andrew Schultz (Brittany), Kayleigh A. Schultz, Michael Richards (Annie), Joshua Richards, Joseph Richards. Her Great-grandchildren Sofia & Brooks Gaussa, Aidan & Zoey Clark, Nolan, Hudson, and Ian Schultz, and Olivia Gray. She is survived by her brothers Roger Stutzman (Debbie), Rick Stutzman (Jerry), Jim Stutzman (Disa). She is also survived by cousins, nieces and a nephew. She will be remembered by her treasured friends: Kay & Vince Leonard, Barbara Beisner, Tony Mikec, Elaine Salazzoni, Margie Williams, Jan McMahon, Maureen & Jim Taylor, her\u00a0 classmates of Peters Twp. class of 1956, and many residents of the Villas of Arden Mills.<\/p>\n
Kay was predeceased by her parents and brothers William Jay Stutzman IV, Donald Stutzman, her beloved sister-in-law, Rowene Wilson and her brother in law, William Hunter, her Mother and Father-in-law, Marie and Andrew Richards, and her uncle Donald Stutzman.<\/p>\n
Kay retired from the Bethel Park School District after 20 years of service. She loved the Penguins, Pirates, Steelers and the Bearcats and rarely missed a game. She took enormous pleasure in watching her grandchildren and great grandchildren play sports. Kay never met a stranger. Wherever she went she extended her kindness and shared conversation. She knew that many carried burdens we knew nothing about and always sought to bring joy to others. A child of God, her family rejoices knowing she is at peace and resting where she can experience the greatest form of love which she certainly earned. In keeping with her firm belief that we should all show kindness to one another, please consider an act of kindness in her memory.<\/p>\n
Friends will be received on Monday, August 17, 2026 from 2:00 pm until the time of the service at 3:00 pm, at Pittsburgh Cremation & Funeral Care, 3287 Washington Road, McMurray, PA 15317.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleanor Kay Stutzman Richards\u201dKay\u201d, aged 87 of Washington, PA passed away into the arms of her Lord on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-266433","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\/266433","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=266433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}