R.I.P.: Cheryl A. Scott KQV Business Manager

Cheryl A. Scott was a dynamic businesswoman, a straight arrow, a nail driver and “a tough broad.” And that was only the half of her.

“Her greatest quality was forgiveness,” said her brother, Robert Dickey Jr., who ran KQV 1410 AM with Mrs. Scott after their father, Robert Dickey Sr., died in 2011.

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Scott, 62, died Friday from lung and liver cancer. For six months, she received chemotherapy while continuing to work three days a week at the radio station. The cancer went into remission for two months but returned in October.

Mrs. Scott was the third oldest of Patricia and Robert Dickey’s 12 children. The oldest is Carol Finelli Brown, whose Total Traffic reports are carried on KQV and many other radio stations.

Their father was the only other family member who could be heard on-air, but radio is in their blood. The family was living in Long Island when Robert Dickey Sr. helped pioneer the all-news, 22-minute radio show at WINS-AM in New York City.

In 1976, her father, a Beaver County native, moved back to Pittsburgh to become general manager of KQV and WDVE-FM, both Taft radio stations. She eventually was brought in to "do the books". And becamdebusiness manager in 2011.