HUNDREDS from the education sector, as well as mourners and sympathisers whose lives she had touched in diverse ways, on Wednesday bade a fond farewell as they paid their last respects to a fallen Guyanese educational icon.
Renowned academician, Olive Adriana Lyken and pioneer in the founding of the Robert Lyken Memorial Home died at her East Street, Georgetown residence on Thursday May 3, 2018, following a brief period of illness.
Her body was interred at Le Repentir Cemetery after a moving Thanksgiving Service at the Trinity Methodist Church. On High Street. She was 94.
Lyken, with years of exceptional experience in the teaching profession, was the first woman to have held the prestigious position of Education Officer in Guyana, as well as the first Principal of the Cyril Potter College of Education, making an indelible impact on the education sector in Guyana.
Renowned academician, Olive Adriana Lyken and pioneer in the founding of the Robert Lyken Memorial Home died at her East Street, Georgetown residence on Thursday May 3, 2018, following a brief period of illness.
Her body was interred at Le Repentir Cemetery after a moving Thanksgiving Service at the Trinity Methodist Church. On High Street. She was 94.
Lyken, with years of exceptional experience in the teaching profession, was the first woman to have held the prestigious position of Education Officer in Guyana, as well as the first Principal of the Cyril Potter College of Education, making an indelible impact on the education sector in Guyana.