SUSAN GURRENTZ

GURRENTZ SUSAN
Passed peacefully, on Sunday evening, November 20, 2011 with her family by her side. Beloved wife of 57 years of Morton Gurrentz who was the love of her life and her greatest champion. Beloved mother of Rodger (Joan) Gurrentz of Murrysville, Thomas (Pamela) Gurrentz of Orlando, FL and Patrick (Lynn) Gurrentz of Murrysville; grandmother of Amy, Tess, Samantha, Benjamin, Ryan, Jackson and Jessica Gurrentz. Susan was a sportswomen, an artist, a benefactor, a mother, a grandmother, a wife. As a sportswoman she was a champion golfer on the golf team of Westmoreland Country Club where her team won the championship in Women's Western Golf Association. She played golf locally and on many of the great courses in the U.S., Australia, Europe, Scotland and Asia. She trekked 23 days to the base camp of Mount Everest as well as trekked to base camp of Minya Konka in China and trekked Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya and summitted the highest mountain in the Rockies, Mount Elbert. She heli-skied 30 years in Alberta and British Columbia amassing over 5 million vertical feet. She was a portrait artist for 50 years painting personages of many individuals and families and dignitaries from around the world. She worked with paper, she painted fine art in oil, water colors, charcoal and pastels. Her work was displayed and sold in galleries in Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Houston, London, and Aspen. She was an enthusiastic photographer and occasional filmmaker. She graduated Taylor Alderdice and attended Sara Lawrence College and graduated from Chatham College where she remained a benefactor ever since. Her proudest accomplishment was her family of three sons and daughter-in-laws and seven grandchildren, all of whom are close to each other as a result of her unabated enthusiasm for her family. She will be greatly missed by all who benefited from her presence. Services at Temple David, 4415 Northern Pike, Monroeville, on Wednesday at 10 a.m. Visitation one hour prior to services at Temple David, (9-10 a.m.). Interment West View Cemetery of Rodef Shalom Congregation. Contributions may be made to American Cancer Society, 320 Bilmar Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15205. Arrangements entrusted to RALPH SCHUGAR CHAPEL, INC. www.schugar.com.
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