Barbara Ann O\u2019Shea (Hagan) died peacefully on September 1, 2026, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the age of 86.<\/p>\n
She was born on July 1, 1940, in St. Louis, Missouri. As a young adult she moved to the Chicago area, where she raised her family. Throughout her life, she worked in customer service positions where she excelled as a result of her cheerful and helpful demeanor.<\/p>\n
Away from work, Barbara\u2019s time belonged to her children and, later, her grandchildren. She showed up for sporting events, concerts, and family gatherings whenever she could. Her older grandchildren remember midnight Taco Bell runs and the small adventures that came with them. She was a devoted reader of books and magazines, liked to consult psychics and follow her horoscope\u2014later discovering she could do both online and on YouTube\u2014and enjoyed craft fairs, often turning what she found there into handmade gifts for the people she loved.<\/p>\n
Barbara is survived by her children, Rhonda Kalkwarf (Jonathan), Michael Hughes, and Patrick O\u2019Shea (Rada Stone); her grandchildren, Benjamin and Bethany Kalkwarf, Katelynn and Kelsey Hughes, and Sydney, Mila, and Danica O\u2019Shea; her sister, Karen Becker (Randy); and her nephews, Johnathan and James Becker.<\/p>\n
A Celebration of Life will be held in Chicago on October 17. The family is grateful to the caregivers at Kadima of Mt. Lebanon for the comfort and care they gave Barbara and those who loved her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barbara Ann O\u2019Shea (Hagan) died peacefully on September 1, 2026, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the age of 86.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-301784","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\/301784","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=301784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}