Karen Lloydetta (Gaylord) Glyde, formerly of Richfield, Minnesota and State College, Pennsylvania, died on October 19, 2014 in Victoria, British Columbia Canada after an extended illness.
She was born on August 16, 1942 in Denver, Colorado and grew up in Richfield, Minnesota. Karen was a member to the 1960 graduating class of Richfield High School. She met her husband while attending Colorado State University and married Gerald P. Glyde in 1963. In 1964, she graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in Home Economics Education and Nutrition.
She was a teacher in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Vancouver, British Columbia and Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. In 1973, she moved to State College, Pennsylvania with her husband and three children. During the next thirty years she dedicated her life to a range of occupations including; seamstress work for Lemont House and Mr. Charles, nutritional program design at 4-H, and a role as the senior research technician in electron microscopy in the Life Sciences Consortium at Penn State University. After retiring in 2003, she moved to Victoria, British Columbia Canada with her husband. Karen felt fortunate to enjoy time traveling, cross country skiing and hiking in many locations with her husband, children and grandchildren.
Karen was preceded in death by her parents, John A. and Joy M. Gaylord. She was followed in death by her sister Ardith (Gaylord) Grover who died on September 4th, 2016. She is survived by her husband, Gerald, and three children, Drian, Heather and Colleen as well as six grandchildren, and two sisters, Joneen Richards and Sareva Parkhurst.