Morris Pike Credit: Courtesy
Morris D. Pike, aged 97 years, 7 months, of Shelburne, Vt., died December 4, 2025. Raised in Stowe on Keewaydin Dairy Farm, he attended the University of Vermont, Yale Divinity School and Mansfield College in Oxford, England.
He was a Minister and Educator with the United Church Of Christ. He served as Associate Minister for the Richmond Hill Church in Queens, N.Y., before returning to Vermont to be the Minister for the Richmond, Vt., Congregational Church. He also was the supervisor of music for the Richmond schools. He then served as Minister of Education for the Vermont Conference, traveling extensively around the state working with community churches. Later, he served as Educator with congregations in Billings, Mont., and Hartford, Conn. His responsibilities broadened in scope with service to Center City Churches, Hartford, Conn.; the Central Atlantic Conference; and the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries (UCBM). With the UCBM’s division of Education and Publication, he was on design teams as well as a writer for nationally used education materials, a workshop leader for church educators around the country and the Coordinator for Conference Resource Centers.
Morris was a longtime volunteer with Heifer International, part of his lifelong interest in world hunger issues. After retirement, locally he volunteered with the Joint Urban Ministry Project (JUMP), the Flynn Center and local schools and for a time was the children’s choir director at College Street Church. A resident of Wake Robin, he served on many of its committees, on the Corporation Board of Directors and as president of the Residents’ Association.
He is survived by his daughter Laura and son-in-law Geoffrey Coombs of Cumberland, Maine; the Les Pike family of Stowe; the Lucene Pike family of Oregon/Idaho; the Jeffrey Pike family of New Jersey; the Amanda Pike Kliber family of Wisconsin; the Stephen Pike family of Nebraska; numerous cousins; and his dear close friend Grant Crichfield of Burlington. He was predeceased by parents Ruth and Carroll; his brothers, Merton and Milton; former wife Ann; an infant son; and his daughter Lucinda.
Heartfelt thanks are extended to the nurses and all personnel of Wake Robin Cedar Skilled Nursing for their care and efforts during his time there.
A celebration of life will be held in the spring of 2026. Memorial contributions may be made to the Caroline Fund for Women in Need, 114 Loomis Street, Burlington, 05401.
