My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

This quote is talking about the parents of the person who is speaking. Their father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. This means that he designed, built, and fixed things related to electricity. Their mother was a writer and wrote humorous columns for the local paper in Murrysville, Pennsylvania. She was a famous writer like Erma Bombeck, and was known for her funny writing.