USW exec, newsman Richard Fontana dead

Nov 03, 2006 | 11:03 AM | Scott Robertson

Richard F. "Dick" Fontana, 71, former public relations director of the United Steelworkers' union, died Oct. 31 in Pittsburgh's UPMC Shadyside Hospital, where he had been a cancer patient since Sept. 26.

Fontana was a longtime Pittsburgh-area journalist who worked both in the print media and local public television. He retired from the USW in 1999.....





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