Ninety-year-old Lyken’s Funeral Home ‘rolling with the punches’

Robert Lyken (left) with a police officer ‘back in the day’

Perseverance, good business practices and a good product is what the proprietors credit for the Lyken Newburg Funeral Home still being in business nine decades after it opened.

The funeral home, which turned 90 on April 2, is now operated by Gordon and Dawn Lyken and while the business in recent years has been “taking blows,” they continue to provide service that is on par