Jean C. (Baptie) Franty, 75, passed away Friday.

At age 16, Jean volunteered as an assistant to Porky Chedwick on weekends at WHOD-AM radio, answering telephones and taking requests. Chedwick, known as the “Boss Man,” called her “the Little Boss” and “Jeannie the Teenage DJ,” allowing her to speak on the air occasionally on Saturday mornings.

After graduating from Munhall High School, Jean attended Robert Morris Business School before landing a job at U.S. Steel Homestead Works, where she met her husband, Louis Franty. She also worked for the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Castle Shannon.

From 1968 to 1973, she was secretary to the director of personnel and pupil services at the Keystone Oaks School District. After working for other administrators, she moved into the superintendent's office in 1984.

Three years later her husband died after a lengthy struggle with multiple sclerosis. During his illness, he was named Father of the Year by the Multiple Sclerosis Society in Pittsburgh for caring for the couple's two children while Jean worked.

During her 36-year tenure at Keystone Oaks, she also served for 18 years as administrative assistant to the South Hills Area School Districts' Association (SHASDA).

Jean's last day on the job was Dec. 23, 2004. At its December 2004 meeting, the school board accepted her retirement as administrative assistant to Superintendent Carl DeJulio. He said in honoring her that, besides her skills, she brought a large degree of love and humanity to her job and had really become an institution in the school district.

She was the wife of the late Louis E. Franty; nurturing mother of Lu Ann Morrone Sheridan and Tim Sheridan of Castle Shannon and Don and Ellen Franty of McMurray; proud grandmother of Anthony (Tony), Katie and Amanda Morrone and Nick and Emily Franty; sister of Alice Miller of Jefferson Hills and Richard Baptie of West Homestead; dear friend to Sandy Danner and the late Raymond Juskowich of Castle Shannon, Debbie and Al Hajek of the Villages, Fla., and countless others.

FRANTY — Friends of Jean C. (Baptie) Franty, who passed away Friday, May 3, 2013, will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home, 301 Curry Hollow Road, Pleasant Hills. A service will be held in celebration of her life at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the chapel. Interment to follow at Jefferson Memorial Park.For more information, go to www.jeffersonmemorial.biz.