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Softball Team Loses Team Friend
11/18/2010 12:00:00 AM | Softball
Nov. 18, 2010
BOCA RATON, FL -
Florida Atlantic University softball befriended and welcomed Keilly Pike as a little sister to the team. It is with great sadness that the team lost that little sister November 17, 2010.
Here is Keilly's obituary
Keilly Eilzabeth Pike, 17, of Wellington. Fla., a student in the Communication Arts program at Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her parents, Steve and Brenda Pike, grandmother, Sarah Breckon, and brother, Zachary Pike on Nov. 17 2010.
Keilly was a gifted writer and wrote many short fiction pieces. She was an avid reader, too. Her favorite book series was Harry Potter and she also loved historical fiction.
Keilly's personal doll collection will be sold to aid Haitian children, as was her wish.
She held many state level and local level offices as a member of the Fifer George Weissenfels Society Children of the American Revolution: State Chaplain, State Recording Secretary, State Historian and State Librarian as well as society president. Keilly traced her genealogy back to America's earliest settlers.
As one of the few children diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme 4, Keilly participated in several cutting-edge clinical trials at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis and the University of Cincinnati Children's Hospital. She also participated in the organizing walk for brain cancer awareness held this past spring at John Prince Park in West Palm Beach and loved watching her 20 "big sisters" play softball for Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.
Over the years Keilly was awarded many school awards for writing and grades. She attended several schools in Palm Beach County including Discovery Key Elementary and Wellington Christian School. She was a past member of Wellington Presbyterian Church and had been attending Christ Fellowship as her health allowed.
Also mourning her loss are her maternal aunt and uncle and cousins, as well as an extended family in Missouri, where she will be laid to rest next to her grandfather in Dooley Cemetery, Eldon, Missouri, among generations of relatives. Her paternal grandparents, James and Elaine Pike, of Wichita, Kan., and aunts, uncles and cousins also mourn her passing.
Keilly was part of a collection of "Hope Stories" published online through the Mayfield Clinic, University of Cincinnati.
Keilly will be remembered by her friends for her humor, quiet resolve, brains and beauty.
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