{"id":274012,"date":"2026-08-28T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274012\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:22:09","slug":"helen-dunda-pittsburgh-cremation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274012\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Dunda – Pittsburgh Cremation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Helen Dunda, age 61, passed away on August 9th, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA after an eight-year journey courageously living life on her terms with metastatic breast cancer. Helen is survived by her sister, Natalie Dunda.\u00a0 Helen graduated from Kent State College with a Degree in Computer Science and worked for 20 years as a programmer.\u00a0 She also spent eight years as a compliance and contracting officer at a Pittsburgh area defense company.\u00a0 Helen was an avid marathon runner, creative seamstress and a long-time student of foreign languages. She was a faithful and devoted Christian, who practiced that faith by being unfailingly kind and generous to others.<\/p>\n

A memorial Mass will be held at St. Rosalia Catholic Church, 411 Greenfield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA on August 29th\u00a0 2026 at 10AM.<\/p>\n

Memorial contributions may be made in honor of Helen to Sharsheret (www.sharsheret.org<\/a>), in grateful recognition of their support to breast cancer patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helen Dunda, age 61, passed away on August 9th, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA after an eight-year journey courageously…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-274012","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\/274012","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=274012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}