Beloved KQV Radio reporter Elaine Effort dies at 74

ELAINE EFFORT worked at KQV Radio for 38 consecutive years, retiring in 2017. (Photo by J.L. Martello) & Loved her family, church, PBMF and the Girl Scouts organization & The year 1977 was a wonderful year, as Ed­mund Effort, D.D.S., tells it. “I graduated from den­tal school, I got married, and then we joined the Air Force,” Effort said. Dr. Effort and the love of his life, his wife Elaine Effort, who he met four years prior at the Univer­sity of Michigan, hopped on a plane and left for the U.S. Air Force Base in Al­conbury, England, about 80 miles north of London. A dentist in the Air Force, Edmund Effort had a good salary, 30 days vacation per year, free health care and free housing. Thus, together, Edmund and Elaine Effort traveled the world. They would look at a map, or read about a particular place, “throw a dart at it,” and just go, Ed­mund Effort told the New Pittsburgh Courier. Hol­land. France. Germany. Spain. Israel. And more. “We went to the River Jordan, Dome of the Rock (Shrine in Jerusalem), the city of Nazareth, Tel Aviv, Bethlehem,” Edmund Ef­fort told the Courier. “We swam in the Dead Sea.”...