Monona County IA Archives Obituaries.....Pike, Edith Whittier April 16, 1963
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Edith Pike, 84,
Buried Thursday                     (From the collection of Vivian Norby 
Andersen)

	Mrs. Edith Pike, 84, died April 16 at the Elmwood Nursing Home, Onawa 
after a two month’s illness.  She was the widow of Harold Pike, prominent 
Whiting farmer who died in 1957, just a year after the couple had celebrated 
their Golden Wedding anniversary.
	Mrs. Pike was a charter member of the Whiting Women’s Study Club and 
held numerous district and state offices.  In 1954 she was named honorary vice-
president of the Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs, and had served only 
recently as president of her local American Legion Auxiliary.
	She was a lifelong member of the Whiting Congregational Church.  In 
1954 she was named Monona County Rural Homemaker of the year.
	Long active in school affairs, Mrs. Pike was the first woman to serve 
on the Whiting School board, and later served 14 years on the Monona County 
Board of Education.  In 1954 she was a delegate to the White House Conference 
on Education.
	The daughter of a pioneer merchant, Lyman Whittier, she is survived by 
a sister, Mrs. Florence Howard of Wharton, Texas; a son, Herbert of Whiting 
and two grandchildren.
	Funeral services were held last Thursday in the Whiting Congregational 
Church with the Reverend Donald Gall officiating.  Burial was in the Whiting 
Cemetery under the direction of the Wood Funeral Home.  Gilbert Smith 
sang “How Great Thou Art” with Mrs. Jane Matthews at the organ and Mrs. 
Florence Garred at the piano.
	Pallbearers were Ted Carlson, Louis Erixon, Clarence Johnson, Milford 
Nelson, Dean Niffenegger and Ardel Persinger.
	
	


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