Anita Marie Trimbur^{[1, 2]}

1955 - 1997

• Born	21 Jul 1955	Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA
  Gender	Female
  Died	26 Dec 1997	Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA   [3]
  Person ID	I9919	Johnson Hindin Tree
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2014

  
  

  Father	Paul Trimbur,   b. Abt 1929, Pennsylvania
  Mother	Dolores Woolensack
  Family ID	F3954	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Dave Postell
  Family ID	F3955	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  The following obituary was published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on December 27 1997: Anita Postell 23-year employee of Pittsburgh newspapers When Anita Powell became supervisor of the accounts payable department at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1993, it simply wasn't in her character to lord it over her co-workers who were now her subordinates. The promotion was nice, but friendship meant more to her than anything. "She went from being a very good friend to being my boss, but I had the respect for her as a friend and and as a boss," said Minette Hodder, who worked with Mrs. Postell for 17 years until she left the Post-Gazette a year ago. "Our relationship did not change." Mrs. Postell, who worked for the former Pittsburgh Press and the Post-Gazette for 23 years, died of cancer yesterday afternoon at home in Baldwin Borough. She was 42. Since she first went to work in the credit department at The Press 1974, Mrs. Postell was known for her gentleness and good will. She often worked late because she took on other people's problems as as her own, even if those problems should have been corrected long before they reached her desk. If expense vouchers weren't quite complete for contest entry checks needed to be altered for last-minute additions, she took care of the details without complaining. "We used to get mad at her," Hodder said. "We say, 'Anita, let them worry about it.' But she would handle it. That's the kind of woman she was. Everyone would go to her because she was the only one who can answer everyone's questions." Christmas was a special time for her, because she loved to bake and made cookies and candies for fellow office workers. She couldn't do the work herself this year because bone cancer had robbed her of her strength. But under her supervision, her husband, Dave, and one of her best friends, Dorothy Conway, made them for her. A friend delivered the cookies to the office, and the tradition continued. "She epitomized what what Christmas was about," said Conway, a secretary in the editorial department who met Mrs. Postell in 1981. "I was very lucky to have her [as a friend]. I don't know that in the rest of my life I'll ever meet anyone like her." Mrs. Postell didn't have any children, but she had plenty of other interests to keep her busy. She enjoyed crafts, particularly needle-point and cross-stitch, and she liked to create floral arrangements. She also was a movie buff, and she and her husband owned a collection of classic films. Her hero, though, was a contemporary actor: Tom Selleck. It wasn't hard to find Mrs. Postell's desk on the fourth floor of the Post-Gazette, because had a poster of Selleck hanging nearby. Mrs. Postell grew up in Knoxville, the first-born daughter of a typestter who worked in the composing room of The Press. She graduated from Hilltop Catholic High School and attended Duff's Business School, Downtown, for two years. After that, she landed a job in the credit department at The Press, then moved on the auditing department. After the Post-Gazette bought The Press in 1992, Mrs. Postell went to work for the new Post-Gazette in accounts payable and became supervisor a year later. In July, Mrs. Postell began feeling sick. She had always resisted going to the doctor in the past, but this time her mother insisted, and she went. At first, the doctors thought she had bronchitis, then pneumonia. She quit work in late July. Although she never smoked, in August she was diagnosed with lung cancer that had already spread to other parts of her body. She underwent chemotherapy at Mercy Hospital and radiation treatment at UPMC Presbyterian. On Dec. 10, she went to Mercy for another chemotherapy treatment, then came home the following Monday to get ready for her favorite holiday. She spent Christmas Day with her family at home. In addition to her husband, she is survivied by her parents, Paul and Dolores Trimbur of West Mifflin, and two brothers, Paul Trimbur of Baltimore and David Trimbur of York. Funeral arrangements, which are being handled by Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home in Pleasant Hills, were incomplete.

  
  

• Sources

  [S772] GEDCOM file imported on 24 Apr 2012. [S771] GEDCOM file imported on 28 Apr 2012. [S788] Newspaper obituary.