Barbara Cloud, 83, former fashion editor and columnist for the Pittsburgh Press and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, passed away last week after a long battle with cancer. I won't pretend that I was along-time reader of hers, but I did enjoy the column she wrote on Sundays after she retired as a full-time fashion editor at the PG. She was delightfully old-fashioned in many ways, but her story of becoming a single mother at the age of 40 and raising a son is almost heroic. She also fought a long and, regrettably, losing battle with the City of Pittsburgh over the awful state of litter on Pittsburgh's downtown streets.
Her obituary in Sunday's Post-Gazette did tell the story of a most interesting and well-lived life.
I once remember walking down the Boulevard of the Allies many, many years ago and seeing Barbara Cloud standing and waiting for a bus. I can truly recall that she looked elegant. Not what you usually saw at a PAT bus stop.
RIP Barbara Cloud.
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