Agnes Hunnell always helped her neighbors, shuttling them to doctor appointments, the grocery and church.

"She was always there if people called her and asked," her daughter, Mary Lou Zeravica, said. "She put everyone ahead of herself. She would do anything for you, so in return, other people would do things for her."

So when Ms. Hunnell's 15-year-old neighbor saw she was having trouble parallel parking her car near her home on Center Street in East Pittsburgh Sunday, he offered to help, attempting to park the car while Ms. Hunnell, 83, stood nearby.

But he accidently struck her, knocking her to the ground. Police said Ms. Hunnell was trapped beneath the car and run over before she was taken to UPMC Mercy, where she died Sunday night.

"We know he was trying to help her," Ms. Zeravica said, just as he always did, carrying her groceries or taking out her garbage. Police said no serious charges are being considered. Investigators will meet with the district attorney's office to consider whether even summary charges would be filed.

Ms. Hunnell, mother of five, grandmother of 13 and a great-grandmother of eight, was the kind of woman people wanted to help. She would open her home to slumber parties and cookouts. Her house was family headquarters on Thanksgiving and Christmas, when she would host generations of relatives and friends for dinner and board games.

She was known for her Jell-O salad, meatloaf and Polish haluski -- one of Ms. Hunnell's specialties, despite her Irish heritage, Ms. Zeravica said.

Ms. Hunnell was born in East Pittsburgh but moved around the world -- to England, Las Vegas, and Alabama, among other places -- with her husband, Charles, a tech sergeant in the Air Force. Despite the moves, Ms. Zeravica said, she made every house feel like home.

Ms. Hunnell and her children eventually returned to East Pittsburgh when her husband died in 1965. Quickly, she became a neighborhood fixture.

Active at Holy Cross Church, Ms. Hunnell went to Mass every week. She was involved with the VFW Ladies Auxiliary and was an avid bowler, Ms. Zeravica said.

She also played grandmother to friends of her children and grandchildren, Ms. Zeravica said, and her home was always full.

"She was just like everyone's grandma," Ms. Zeravica said. "She would do anything to help anybody."

Funeral arrangements are pending with Patrick T. Lanigan Funeral Home in East Pittsburgh.