By: Olwen Logan Published 09/08/09

In this file photo, Connie Pike (right) joins the laughter during comments by Selectwoman Bonnie Reemsnyder at a “retirement” party held in Pike’s honor in October 2006.

Constance “Connie” Pike died peacefully in Boston last Saturday.  Mrs. Pike called Old Lyme home for many years and was intimately involved in numerous projects in the town In a volunteer capacity.

At a “retirement” party held in her honor in October 2006, then Chairman of the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library Board of Trustees David Winer decribed Mrs. Pike as “a remarkable woman.”  He continued, talking to her directly, saying, “You are totally dedicated to bettering humankind,” adding that it was “altruism and not ego” that had always been her motivation.

Among Mrs. Pike’s numerous accomplishments, she ran the volunteer program for Lyme-Old Lyme Public Schools, was  behind the creation of “Phoebe’s Book Cellar”, chaired the extremely successful fundraising campaign for the Old Lyme library expansion and always had a special place in her heart for Old Lyme Daycare, now known as the Old Lyme Children’s Early Learning Center.

A memorial service for Mrs. Pike will be held in the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 4:30 p.m.

Click here to read Mrs. Pike’s full obituary.

Click here to read a report of the “retirement” party mentioned above.