| Obituary:
Margaretta H. Pike, 83, of Pleasantville, NY, died October 7, 2009. Marg was born January 11, 1926, to the late Elwin Welch Horner of southeastern Indiana and Katharine Colson Bingham Horner, great-granddaughter of two of the pioneer families that settled along
the Daniel Boone trail two centuries ago near what is now Pineville, KY. Marg grew up in Ft. Wayne, IN, graduating with the Northside H.S. Class of '44 on D-Day -- 6/6/44. She took her BA degree at Rockford College (Rockford, IL) with the Class of '48, and then worked as Youth Director of the YWCA in Ft. Wayne and in Cleveland, OH, until '59. In the summer of '54, the Ft. Wayne JCs sponsored her in the Community Ambassador program of the Experiment in International Living to represent Ft. Wayne in the city of Zeist, Holland, reporting back her many observations of life in that part
of Europe. She met and married her beloved husband, Dr. John N. Pike, a senior scientist (optical physics) with the Union Carbide Corp., in Lakewood, OH, in '57. Pike's group was transferred in
'63 to Carbide's then-new UC Research Institute at what is now known as the Landmark at Eastview on the Mt. Pleasant-Greenburgh border near Pleasantville, where they have lived ever since.
Marg's life was filled with community voluntarism.
During her daughters' Girl Scout years, she served as the GS' Pleasantville Neighborhood Chairman from '70-'74. She joined the P.E.O. nationwide sisterhood on 1/17/72, and has served its Chapter AQ, covering the area in and around Mt. Pleasant, as President first in '80-'82, then again in '92-'93, and has continued to
enjoy her many friends in that organization ever since. As a United Way Agency Liaison volunteer in the early '80's, she became quite interested in the work of the Mental Health Association of Westchester, and subsequently served on MHA's Board of Directors
as co-chair of the Program Committee for twenty years ('84-'04), and also a two-year term as MHA's Vice President ('92-'94). Marg was also an inveterate walker and bird watcher on the trails of Rockefeller Park, the Everqlades, Jackson Lake in the Tetons,Malheur in Oregon's Great Basin, and other vacation spots that she loved. The wide circle of life-long friends from these activities, plus her many bridge-playing friends in Pleasantville's Contemporary Club and others, are sincerely thanked by her family for their outpouring of affection shown her during her final illness.
Marg is survived by her loving husband, John; their two
. beloved daughters, Sally Katharine pike (of Pawling, NY) and her two boys, Chester and Arthur D'Agostino, and Susan Horner Pike
(of York, ME) and her two boys Hunter Gagnon and Sam Pike; and by her beloved sister, Mary Frances Horner (of NYC). Visitation will be _________________________ at the Beecher Funeral Home.
Interment of her ashes and placement of a memorial stone will take place privately at the Pike family's l5O-year-old burial plots
in Oak Grove Cemetery (Fall River, MA) at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made in Marg's memory to the United Way of Westchester and Putnam, or to MHA, or to the Girl Scouts of Westchester and Putnam |
