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Family remembers local man killed in crash on way to his wedding in Pittsburgh

Kate Schurtz, 35, left and her fiance Joseph Kearney, 42, were on their way to Pittsburgh for their wedding earlier this month when they were killed in a chain-reaction car crash on I-78. Photo: Family photos/Via WPXI

PITTSBURGH, Penn. — A Pittsburgh man who died in a fiery crash on an eastern Pennsylvania interstate earlier this month was remembered Tuesday morning.

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Joseph Kearney, 42, and his fiance Kate Schurtz, 35, were driving from their home in New Jersey to Pittsburgh for their wedding, when their vehicle was involved in a multi-vehicle on I-78.

Kearney grew up in Pleasant Hills and graduated from Seton LaSalle High School.

According to his obituary, he graduated from Penn State University with a marketing degree and earned his MBA from the University of Maryland.

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Kearney was working as the Director of Emerging Technology at Verizon.

He'll be buried with his fiance in New Jersey.