TURTLE CREEK — A Pittsburgh-area bowling fanatic has gotten a Utah company to fashion a bowling ball urn for his ashes.

Tony Guarino, 48, says that his wife, Stacy, called Storm Products of Brigham City, Utah, when he began wondering if the bowling ball company could make such a container.

Company official Mike Stewart says Storm was “honored” by the request and has since delivered the ball.

Guarino of Wilkins Township is an avid bowler whose only perfect, 300 game was bowled using a Storm ball.

But he can no longer bowl because his terminal prostate cancer has spread to his lower back and pelvis.