I hated to read this announcement from the daily SCACA email:
Our Sympathy goes out to the family of Coach Charlie Pike. Coach Pike served as Powdersville High Head Varsity Boys Soccer Coach and passed away this past weekend. Powdersville says Coach Pike was one of a kind and will be greatly missed.I had the pleasure of coaching against Charlie's club soccer teams at Easley SC the past several years and always found him to be a really nice guy and a very good coach. RIP, Charlie!
More information from the PHS Facebook page: Our Patriot family would like to send our heartfelt sympathy to the family of Powdersville High School Varsity Boys Soccer Coach Charlie Pike, who passed away this weekend after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Coach Pike was a kind and generous man, enthusiastic about soccer and coaching young players, who served PVHS and our community with love and dedication. Please keep his wife, Cassandra, and sons Carter, Trevor, and Brody, in your prayers. He will be greatly missed.
UPDATE: Coach Pike’s arrangements*Receiving of friends will be on Thursday, July 15 from 5 to 8pm at the chapel of Robinson Funeral Home on Powdersville Road. The funeral mass will be at 3 o'clock Friday, July 16 at St. Luke's Catholic Church in Easley with a committal service following at Robinson Memorial Gardens Chapel of Reflections Mausoleum on Powdersville Road. The funeral mass will also be live streamed from St. Luke's Catholic Church at holycrossstluke.org
**Memorials may be given in Charlie’s name to Pancreatic Cancer Action Network at pancan.org or to the Powdersville High School Soccer Program to 145 Hood Road, Greenville, SC 29611.
