Jacqueline Pike, 97
Jacqueline “Jackie” Pike, 97, passed away peacefully on March 4 in Wilton, Connecticut. She had just celebrated her 97th birthday, which fell on Leap Year, with her family.
Born Jacqueline Grace Holt in Chicago, Illinois to Norman and Josephine Holt, she was reared in Staten Island, New York along with her sister, Muriel. She graduated from Curtis High School in 1945. Jacqueline studied English Literature at Ohio University and graduated from Wagner College in New York.
Jackie worked for the Junior Red Cross of greater New York and married Richard Pike, an architect, in 1952 in a beautiful wedding at Manhattan’s upper westside Riverside Church. They began their married life in Stamford, CT then moved on to Norwalk in 1954 where they started their family, two sons and a daughter. In 1968, they moved to the bucolic town of Weston, CT to a house that Richard had designed and built, that they would occupy for fifty years.
Throughout her life, Jackie continued to thrive in her volunteer work at the Weston schools, Weston Library and Norwalk Hospital. For decades she was an active member of Norfield Congregational Church.
Jackie and Richard were outdoor enthusiasts spending much time at the New Hampshire house Richard had designed and built in the 1970s, hiking and skiing in the White Mountains. She was an avid folk dancer, traveler and reader. Perhaps her greatest talent was her amazing knitting and seamstress skills. She loved making baby sweaters for friends and family.
She is survived by her two sons, Richard Pike of St. Johnsbury, Vermont and Sidney Pike of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, her daughter Elizabeth Cocoros, son-in-law Dion Cocoros of Wilton CT and her four grandchildren, Tristan and Jocelyn Pike and Anna and Alexander Cocoros.
A service and celebration of life will be planned at a later date.