Michael O. Enright

March 8, 2015

Michael Owen Enright, of Pitcairn, died early Sunday morning, March 8, 2015, from lung cancer. He was 60 years old. Mike was a brilliant youth, sidelined by the onset of schizophrenia in his junior year at Penn State. After a tumultuous decade learning how to manage his illness, Mike had a successful 23-year career as a lab technician specializing in latex research for Koppers Research Corporation and later for Indspec Chemical. Mike will be remembered by all who knew him as an exceptionally kind and loving person. In the last 10 years of his life, he was a diligent and compassionate advocate of persons with mental illness and their recovery. He benefited greatly from his association with Peoples Oakland, eventually serving on its board as a consumer advocate, and also helped develop a curriculum there for a recovery group he helped lead called "Ways and Means - Tools for Personal Growth." Since 2007, Mike was a board member of the Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Advisory Board of Allegheny County. Beginning in 2013, Mike was also a board member of Allegheny Health Choices Inc., and served as its treasurer in 2014. Mike kept pace with the procedures and policies of each of these organizations and actively worked with them to represent the concerns and perspectives of people with mental illness. Mike was preceded in death by his parents, Walter and Marion (Pellizzaro) Enright; and brothers, Thomas and Peter. He is survived by his brothers, Tim (Vikki), of Madison, Wis., and John (Cathy), of Belle Vernon; his sister, Patricia, of Pittsburgh; and his sister-in-law, Connie, of Orlando, Fla. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the GENE H. CORL INC. FUNERAL CHAPEL AND CREMATION SERVICES OF MONROEVILLE, 4335 Northern Pike (412-372-2100). Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 14, 2015, at St. Bernadette Catholic Church, with Father Tony Gargotta as celebrant. Interment following at Plum Creek Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Mike's memory to People's Oakland, 3433 Bates St., Pittsburgh, PA 15213.