Lyndon Ogburn Sikes, age 81, died September 6, 2011 at Prestige Care in Anchorage with family at his side.
Memorial service will be held at 3:00 pm Sunday, September 11 at First United Methodist Church, 725 W. 9th Ave. Interment will follow at Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery.
He was born February 28, 1930 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the third and youngest child of Dr. and Mrs. (Clio Ogburn) Thomas Edgar Sikes. He passed away peacefully after a 30 year struggle against prostate cancer. Lyndon attended school in Greensboro, graduating from Greensboro Senior High School in 1948. As a young teenager he operated a small poultry farm. He started 100 chicks per week for a two year period, raising and dressing them for the local market. During high school he managed his father's dairy farm.
He attended North Carolina State College and then transferred to Duke University where he graduated with a major in Pre-Med. He attended summer school at Julliard School of Music in New York, studying voice, music theory, and opera. He sang in the Duke University Chapel Choir as chorus member and soloist.
Lyndon was inducted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He served in Japan in the Signal Corps and while there volunteered in tutoring other soldiers in Math and Algebra. After his Army service he attended the Graduate School of Nutrition at Cornell University. While there Lyndon learned about a job opening in Alaska with the U.S. Public Health Service. He arrived in 1958 to work as a chemist with the Arctic Health Research Center in Anchorage, analyzing the nutritional value of native foods.
Lyndon recognized Alaska's agricultural potential and was a pioneer in his pursuit of in-state food processing. When the research project ended, he worked as an electronic technician for ITT and the RCA White Alice Defense Communication System at Kalakaket Creek, Galena, and Unalakleet. In 1960 he married Beverly Jean Reed from Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1952 she drove up the Alcan highway with three other Nebraska women who had all recently graduated from college.
Lyndon and Beverly traveled from "Nome to Rome" on their honeymoon. They spent two months making their way through 15 countries in Western Europe including a week in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. The couple started their life together in Unalakleet where they came to know and admire the people and the community. They eventually moved to Anchorage where they purchased a small frozen pizza manufacturing business under the "Original Pizza" label. They operated the company for ten years.
In 1963 Lyndon was among three neighbors who surveyed and built Upper Huffman Road which, at the time, was little more than a gravel trail. It is now the main access road to Chugach State Park. Lyndon's passion in life was music. Blessed with a beautiful baritone voice, he started singing Handel's Messiah at age 14, continuing over a period of 60 years as chorus member and soloist. He sang in the First United Methodist Church choir for 53 years. He served two years as President of Anchorage Community Chorus (now the Anchorage Concert Chorus) and was on the Board of Directors of the Alaska Festival of Music and the King's Lake Fine Arts Camp. Lyndon also sang in the Anchorage Opera Chorus.
Lyndon is survived by Beverly, his wife of 51 years, sons Eric (Anne), Steve (Heather), and grandchildren Riley, Grace, and Benjamin, his sister Rhea of Washington Island, WI, brother Dr. T.E. Sikes, Jr. of Greensboro, NC, and step-mother Mary Ann Sikes of Greensboro, NC as well as numerous other relatives.
The family would like to express sincere appreciation to the loving and caring staff of Prestige Care and to Dr.William Clark of Alaska Urological Institute. Memorials may be directed to the First United Methodist Church.
Arrangements are with Janssen's Evergreen Memorial Chapel. Published in adn.com from September 9 to September 10, 2011
Memorial service will be held at 3:00 pm Sunday, September 11 at First United Methodist Church, 725 W. 9th Ave. Interment will follow at Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery.
He was born February 28, 1930 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the third and youngest child of Dr. and Mrs. (Clio Ogburn) Thomas Edgar Sikes. He passed away peacefully after a 30 year struggle against prostate cancer. Lyndon attended school in Greensboro, graduating from Greensboro Senior High School in 1948. As a young teenager he operated a small poultry farm. He started 100 chicks per week for a two year period, raising and dressing them for the local market. During high school he managed his father's dairy farm.
He attended North Carolina State College and then transferred to Duke University where he graduated with a major in Pre-Med. He attended summer school at Julliard School of Music in New York, studying voice, music theory, and opera. He sang in the Duke University Chapel Choir as chorus member and soloist.
Lyndon was inducted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He served in Japan in the Signal Corps and while there volunteered in tutoring other soldiers in Math and Algebra. After his Army service he attended the Graduate School of Nutrition at Cornell University. While there Lyndon learned about a job opening in Alaska with the U.S. Public Health Service. He arrived in 1958 to work as a chemist with the Arctic Health Research Center in Anchorage, analyzing the nutritional value of native foods.
Lyndon recognized Alaska's agricultural potential and was a pioneer in his pursuit of in-state food processing. When the research project ended, he worked as an electronic technician for ITT and the RCA White Alice Defense Communication System at Kalakaket Creek, Galena, and Unalakleet. In 1960 he married Beverly Jean Reed from Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1952 she drove up the Alcan highway with three other Nebraska women who had all recently graduated from college.
Lyndon and Beverly traveled from "Nome to Rome" on their honeymoon. They spent two months making their way through 15 countries in Western Europe including a week in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. The couple started their life together in Unalakleet where they came to know and admire the people and the community. They eventually moved to Anchorage where they purchased a small frozen pizza manufacturing business under the "Original Pizza" label. They operated the company for ten years.
In 1963 Lyndon was among three neighbors who surveyed and built Upper Huffman Road which, at the time, was little more than a gravel trail. It is now the main access road to Chugach State Park. Lyndon's passion in life was music. Blessed with a beautiful baritone voice, he started singing Handel's Messiah at age 14, continuing over a period of 60 years as chorus member and soloist. He sang in the First United Methodist Church choir for 53 years. He served two years as President of Anchorage Community Chorus (now the Anchorage Concert Chorus) and was on the Board of Directors of the Alaska Festival of Music and the King's Lake Fine Arts Camp. Lyndon also sang in the Anchorage Opera Chorus.
Lyndon is survived by Beverly, his wife of 51 years, sons Eric (Anne), Steve (Heather), and grandchildren Riley, Grace, and Benjamin, his sister Rhea of Washington Island, WI, brother Dr. T.E. Sikes, Jr. of Greensboro, NC, and step-mother Mary Ann Sikes of Greensboro, NC as well as numerous other relatives.
The family would like to express sincere appreciation to the loving and caring staff of Prestige Care and to Dr.William Clark of Alaska Urological Institute. Memorials may be directed to the First United Methodist Church.
Arrangements are with Janssen's Evergreen Memorial Chapel. Published in adn.com from September 9 to September 10, 2011
Lyndon Ogburn Sikes, age 81, died September 6, 2011 at Prestige Care in Anchorage with family at his side.
Memorial service will be held at 3:00 pm Sunday, September 11 at First United Methodist Church, 725 W. 9th Ave. Interment will follow at Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery.
He was born February 28, 1930 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the third and youngest child of Dr. and Mrs. (Clio Ogburn) Thomas Edgar Sikes. He passed away peacefully after a 30 year struggle against prostate cancer. Lyndon attended school in Greensboro, graduating from Greensboro Senior High School in 1948. As a young teenager he operated a small poultry farm. He started 100 chicks per week for a two year period, raising and dressing them for the local market. During high school he managed his father's dairy farm.
He attended North Carolina State College and then transferred to Duke University where he graduated with a major in Pre-Med. He attended summer school at Julliard School of Music in New York, studying voice, music theory, and opera. He sang in the Duke University Chapel Choir as chorus member and soloist.
Lyndon was inducted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He served in Japan in the Signal Corps and while there volunteered in tutoring other soldiers in Math and Algebra. After his Army service he attended the Graduate School of Nutrition at Cornell University. While there Lyndon learned about a job opening in Alaska with the U.S. Public Health Service. He arrived in 1958 to work as a chemist with the Arctic Health Research Center in Anchorage, analyzing the nutritional value of native foods.
Lyndon recognized Alaska's agricultural potential and was a pioneer in his pursuit of in-state food processing. When the research project ended, he worked as an electronic technician for ITT and the RCA White Alice Defense Communication System at Kalakaket Creek, Galena, and Unalakleet. In 1960 he married Beverly Jean Reed from Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1952 she drove up the Alcan highway with three other Nebraska women who had all recently graduated from college.
Lyndon and Beverly traveled from "Nome to Rome" on their honeymoon. They spent two months making their way through 15 countries in Western Europe including a week in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. The couple started their life together in Unalakleet where they came to know and admire the people and the community. They eventually moved to Anchorage where they purchased a small frozen pizza manufacturing business under the "Original Pizza" label. They operated the company for ten years.
In 1963 Lyndon was among three neighbors who surveyed and built Upper Huffman Road which, at the time, was little more than a gravel trail. It is now the main access road to Chugach State Park. Lyndon's passion in life was music. Blessed with a beautiful baritone voice, he started singing Handel's Messiah at age 14, continuing over a period of 60 years as chorus member and soloist. He sang in the First United Methodist Church choir for 53 years. He served two years as President of Anchorage Community Chorus (now the Anchorage Concert Chorus) and was on the Board of Directors of the Alaska Festival of Music and the King's Lake Fine Arts Camp. Lyndon also sang in the Anchorage Opera Chorus.
Lyndon is survived by Beverly, his wife of 51 years, sons Eric (Anne), Steve (Heather), and grandchildren Riley, Grace, and Benjamin, his sister Rhea of Washington Island, WI, brother Dr. T.E. Sikes, Jr. of Greensboro, NC, and step-mother Mary Ann Sikes of Greensboro, NC as well as numerous other relatives.
The family would like to express sincere appreciation to the loving and caring staff of Prestige Care and to Dr.William Clark of Alaska Urological Institute. Memorials may be directed to the First United Methodist Church.
Arrangements are with Janssen's Evergreen Memorial Chapel. Published in adn.com from September 9 to September 10, 2011
Memorial service will be held at 3:00 pm Sunday, September 11 at First United Methodist Church, 725 W. 9th Ave. Interment will follow at Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery.
He was born February 28, 1930 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the third and youngest child of Dr. and Mrs. (Clio Ogburn) Thomas Edgar Sikes. He passed away peacefully after a 30 year struggle against prostate cancer. Lyndon attended school in Greensboro, graduating from Greensboro Senior High School in 1948. As a young teenager he operated a small poultry farm. He started 100 chicks per week for a two year period, raising and dressing them for the local market. During high school he managed his father's dairy farm.
He attended North Carolina State College and then transferred to Duke University where he graduated with a major in Pre-Med. He attended summer school at Julliard School of Music in New York, studying voice, music theory, and opera. He sang in the Duke University Chapel Choir as chorus member and soloist.
Lyndon was inducted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He served in Japan in the Signal Corps and while there volunteered in tutoring other soldiers in Math and Algebra. After his Army service he attended the Graduate School of Nutrition at Cornell University. While there Lyndon learned about a job opening in Alaska with the U.S. Public Health Service. He arrived in 1958 to work as a chemist with the Arctic Health Research Center in Anchorage, analyzing the nutritional value of native foods.
Lyndon recognized Alaska's agricultural potential and was a pioneer in his pursuit of in-state food processing. When the research project ended, he worked as an electronic technician for ITT and the RCA White Alice Defense Communication System at Kalakaket Creek, Galena, and Unalakleet. In 1960 he married Beverly Jean Reed from Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1952 she drove up the Alcan highway with three other Nebraska women who had all recently graduated from college.
Lyndon and Beverly traveled from "Nome to Rome" on their honeymoon. They spent two months making their way through 15 countries in Western Europe including a week in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. The couple started their life together in Unalakleet where they came to know and admire the people and the community. They eventually moved to Anchorage where they purchased a small frozen pizza manufacturing business under the "Original Pizza" label. They operated the company for ten years.
In 1963 Lyndon was among three neighbors who surveyed and built Upper Huffman Road which, at the time, was little more than a gravel trail. It is now the main access road to Chugach State Park. Lyndon's passion in life was music. Blessed with a beautiful baritone voice, he started singing Handel's Messiah at age 14, continuing over a period of 60 years as chorus member and soloist. He sang in the First United Methodist Church choir for 53 years. He served two years as President of Anchorage Community Chorus (now the Anchorage Concert Chorus) and was on the Board of Directors of the Alaska Festival of Music and the King's Lake Fine Arts Camp. Lyndon also sang in the Anchorage Opera Chorus.
Lyndon is survived by Beverly, his wife of 51 years, sons Eric (Anne), Steve (Heather), and grandchildren Riley, Grace, and Benjamin, his sister Rhea of Washington Island, WI, brother Dr. T.E. Sikes, Jr. of Greensboro, NC, and step-mother Mary Ann Sikes of Greensboro, NC as well as numerous other relatives.
The family would like to express sincere appreciation to the loving and caring staff of Prestige Care and to Dr.William Clark of Alaska Urological Institute. Memorials may be directed to the First United Methodist Church.
Arrangements are with Janssen's Evergreen Memorial Chapel. Published in adn.com from September 9 to September 10, 2011
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