Roger Stuart Dies, Was Former Post-Gazette Reporter

DORMONT, PA - Roger Stuart, an award-winning reporter for four decades for the The Pittsburgh Press and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, died Sunday at his Dormont home. He was 78.

Among the projects Mr. Stuart worked on during his long journalism career were packages on high black infant mortality rates, unregulated personal care homes and hazardous workplaces, according to the Post-Gazette.

Mr. Stuart also covered the city’s suburbs, state government, civil rights and welfare issues. He wrote editorials for the Press and ended his career as editor of the P-G’s South suburban section.

“He was humble — fairly quiet for a reporter — but he had a way of engaging people so that they would open up to him,” Maddy Ross, one of Mr. Stuart’s former editors at the Press, told the P-G.

Mr. Stuart is survived by sons Albert (Christina), Joshua (Margaret) and William Benjamin Stuart; grandchildren Sarah E. McFall (Andrew), Moira E., Caleb J., Josiah N., Brigid E., Ezekiel M., Lily B., Charles A. and Trinity N. Stuart; a sister, Barbara Stuart Swisher (James); a twin brother, William T. Stuart (Vicki) and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Cynthia Rhodes Stuart, last October; and his parents, Roger W. and Bonnalyn Grace Taft Stuart.

Friends will be received Feb. 18 from 4-8 p.m. at Laughlin Cremation & Funeral Tributes, Inc., 222 Washington Road, Mt. Lebanon. A memorial service will be held at the United Presbyterian Church, 2545 Main Street, Penn Hills, on March 18. Interment in Mt. Lebanon Cemetery will be private.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks people to consider a contribution to Alzheimer Disease Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 or to Universal United Presbyterian Church.

Photo via Laughlin Cremation & Funeral Tributes.