Efforts Underway To Aid Family Of Penn Hills Teacher Killed In Crash

PITTSBURGH, PA — A fundraising effort has been launched to aid the family of a beloved Penn Hills High School teacher who was killed in a vehicle crash last week.

A GoFundMe page has been established for the wife and three sons of Josh Willey, 49, of South Fayette. He died when his vehicle plunged about 80 feet off of the Parkway East near the Squirrel Hill Tunnel and landed in a creek.

Willy had been with the Penn Hills School District for more than 23 years, serving as a social studies teacher and as a gifted coordinator. But there was more to him than his job, according to fundraiser organizer Elene Fontella.

"Josh was very involved in youth sports, specifically baseball and basketball," Fontella wrote on the GoFundMe page. "He loved his boys and loved to coach them. From coaching kindergarten basketball to pony league baseball, there is nowhere else he would have rather have been."

Willy's funeral is Friday at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Upper St. Clair. Arrangements are being handled by the Warchol Funeral Home in Bridgeville.