Please join friends, family, and neighbors for a memorial meeting celebrating the life of Lucy Durand Sikes on Saturday, Jan. 13 at 11 a.m.
The meeting, organized and hosted by the Brooklyn Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, will take place at 110 Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn.
Ms. Sikes and her husband Bill were founding members of the Pratt Area Community Council, now known as IMPACCT Brooklyn.
The couple worked with longtime PACC Executive Director Hortense “Tee” Beveridge, often meeting at the Beveridge home with fellow Clinton Hill residents to empower their neighbors.
An artist and graduate of the Pratt Institute, Ms. Sikes was recognized locally as “The Brownstone Artist” thanks to her portraits of homes and buildings from across the neighborhood.
She was also responsible for PACC’s original logo, which was used for more than 40 years. The organization adopted the image in 1972 and used it until the organization’s expansion into IMPACCT Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Meeting will display some or Ms. Sikes works at the meeting on Jan. 13.
“Lucy had a talent and presence in the community that we will forever be grateful for,” said former IMPACCT Brooklyn Executive Director Deb Howard. “She will be greatly missed.”
