Background
Clare Ansberry was born on the 29th of September, 1957 in Virginia City, Montana, United States, the daughter of Jay and Coletta Ansberry.
Clare Ansberry
1979
117 Evergreen Drive, Loretto, PA 15940, United States
Clare Ansberry attended Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Journalism in 1979.
1979
117 Evergreen Drive, Loretto, PA 15940, United States
Clare Ansberry attended Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Journalism in 1979.
Clare Ansberry with her husband Matt Smith and sons Pete and Eli
(In a small neighborhood, perched atop a hill in Pittsburg...)
In a small neighborhood, perched atop a hill in Pittsburgh, thrives a world we think we have lost. The women of Troy Hill, now grand- and great-grandmothers, have lived here for the better part of the twentieth century. Most of the women were born here and married here; they raised their children here and buried their husbands (and some of their children) here; and their lives are a living testament to the old-fashioned values of service, friendship, faith, and sacrifice that younger, more restless and rushed generations have nearly forgotten.
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Clare Ansberry was born on the 29th of September, 1957 in Virginia City, Montana, United States, the daughter of Jay and Coletta Ansberry.
Clare Ansberry attended Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Journalism in 1979.
Clare Ansberry began her career in journalism in 1979 as a reporter for the Journal, a local daily newspaper in Lorain, Ohio. In 1984, Ansberry joined the Cleveland bureau as a reporter and columnist of The Wall Street Journal. She transferred to the Pittsburgh bureau as a reporter in 1985 and covered banking, photography and the steel industry. She became Pittsburgh’s deputy bureau chief in September 1992 and was named bureau chief in January 1996.
In 2000, Clare wrote The Women of Troy Hill: The Back-Fence Virtues of Faith and Friendship.
Clare Ansberry is particularly known as the author, as well as journalist and contributor to articles.
During her professional life, Clare received a 1984 John Hancock Award in the small newspaper category as a member of a team of reporters, who had written a series of articles for the Lorain paper in 1983.
In 1998, Ansberry was awarded a Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for her page-one story about Jessie Lee Foveaux. She also received a Casey Medals award from the Casey Journalism Center in 2005 and Darrell Sifford Memorial Prize in Journalism in the same year from the Missouri School of Journalism, both citing stories of people with developmental disabilities.
(In a small neighborhood, perched atop a hill in Pittsburg...)
2000Clare Ansberry is married to Matthew P. Smith. The marriage produced three children, Jessie Egan, Peter McBride, and Eli.
When her daughter Jessie died at age 23 in 2013, Clare Ansberry knew right away that she wanted to do something to commemorate her life. She and her husband decided to do something they thought Jessie would've really liked - a yearly fundraising event packed full of fun carnival games. They called it "The Jessie Games."
