Pamela Barbour

PAMELA SUE BIGGS-BARBOUR WAS BORN ON APRIL 17, 1950 IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO TO NORMAN W. AND MEREDYTH K. SIMMONS-BIGGS.  SHE WAS RAISED IN BELLAIRE, OHIO UNTIL THE FAMILY MOVED TO PITTSBURGH, PA IN 1956.  SHE WAS EDUCATED IN THE PITTSBURGH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AND ATTENDED SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL WHERE SHE EXCELLED IN ALL SUBJECTS AND WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF HER SENIOR CLASS AJND GRADUATED IN 1968.

SHE WORKED AND RETIRED AFTER 18 YEARS AS A JUDICIAL SECRETARY IN THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY COURT SYSTEM, CRIMINAL DIVISION FOR THE HONORABLE JUDGE JOHN A. ZOTTOLA AND JUDICIAL STAFF AND BEST FRIENDS PHILLIP NASSAR AND SMITTY WHO WERE LIKE FAMILY TO HER, AND MANY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES THERE.  PRIOR TO THIS PAM WAS AN ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY AND PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO THE LATE HONORABLE MAYOR SOPHIE MASLOFF AND THEY BECAME FAST FRIENDS OVER THE YEARS.

PAM HAD A MAGNETIC PERSONALITY AND ANYONE WHO MET AND KNEW HER FELL IN LOVE WITH HER AND CHERISHED HER FRIENDSHIP.  SHE WAS VERY LOYAL AND HER WORD WAS BOND.  YOU COULD ALWAYS COUNT ON HER TO DO WHAT WAS RIGHT AND JUST.  SHE WAS ALSO A GREAT COMEDIENNE AND COULD PUT A SMILE ON ANYONE'S FACE, NO MATTER THE SITUATION.  SHE WAS BELOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER.

SHE WAS A LONG TIME AND DEVOTED MEMBER OF CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH, REV. VICTOR J. GRIGSBY, FOR OVER 18 PLUS YEARS.  SHE SERVED IN THE KITCHEN MINISTRY AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE SENIOR LADIES USHER BOARD AND WAS ALWAYS AVAILABLE WHEREVER AND WHENEVER NEEDED.  PAM LOVED THE LORD WITH ALL HER HEART AND SOUL UNTIL HE CALLED HER HOME QUIETLY ON OCTOBER 30, 2017 AFTER A LONG BATTLE WITH LUNG CANCER.

PAM WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS NORMAN AND MEREDYTH BIGGS, HER NEPHEW MIKE WALLACE, JR., AND HER GREAT NEPHEW JORDAN JETTER.  SHE LEAVES TO CHERISH HER MEMORY HER LOVING HUSBAND JAY AND HER SISTER KATHY (MIKE WALLACE), (PAM AND KATHY WERE INSEPERABLE THROUGHOUT LIFE, IF YOU SAW ONE YOU SAW THE OTHER)  HER NEPHEW NORMAN (JAYME BARRON), NIECES KAREN (CHARLES BRYANT) AND KELLI-ANNE, GREAT NEPHEWS AND NIECES KLAY AND KOREN WALKER, JAVON THOMPSON JR AND AALIYAH, JADEN WALLACE. KAYLA, MARKIYA, KANIYA, LITTLE NORMAN, LITTLE MIKEY AND JAAMIR AND KAMARI WALLACE.   SHE WAS AN AUNT/MOTHER TO ALL THE KIDS AND LOVED THEM ALL DEARLY. ALSO THE ENTIRE BIGGS FAMILY COUSINS AND COUSINS SHIRLEY KING AND ALBERTA UNDERWOOD.