Katie Pyle, daughter of the late state Rep. Jeff Pyle, left, and state Sen. Joe Pittman, R-41st, speak Wednesday, April 12, at the BC3 @ Armstrong ribbon cutting ceremony for the new State Rep. Jeffrey P. Pyle Building. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle

MANOR TWP, Armstrong County — Katie Pyle said that before she was born, her family bought a house near Ford City Junior-Senior High School, so her dad could walk to his teaching job and she and her older sister could eventually walk to school.

Because of that decision, Katie said it was her father, the late Pennsylvania Rep. Jeff Pyle, who should have been speaking at the ribbon cutting event for the new Butler County Community College campus in Ford City on Wednesday, April 12, instead of her.

BC3 @ Armstrong in Ford City is located on the site of the former Ford City Junior-Senior High School. The facility now bears Pyle’s name — The State Rep. Jeffrey P. Pyle Building.

Pyle died on Sept. 14, 2022, but Katie Pyle and several other people Wednesday said the new BC3 @ Armstrong campus opened in March would not have been possible without him, and it now bears his namesake.