Another birthday without you here. You are my guardian angel and I know you are watching over us all. It's a beautiful morning and I will have a cappuccino in your memory. I love and miss you Sis.❤️

Karen You were the shining star in so many people’s eyes and your legacy lives on through them. Thank you for bringing Donna and I together. I have been blessed to be her sister from another mother but I could never fill your shoes. We both believe you are the shining light that brought our friendship together. Heather misses you dearly but she tries to put up a strong front. They could both use a blessing from you. Enjoy a cappuccino on me. . Linda.

Another sad anniversary is here. The tears flow again as I think how much I miss you. I know you are at peace and running all the place drinking coffee. I you.

Remembering you on your birthday today. Love and miss you!❤️❤️❤️

I miss you more today than I did yesterday. You are a guardian angel, reminding me of how to live life with a smile and laughter despite illness being with you all the time. Your love of life is an inspiration to all. Your smile and laugh let me know how loved you are by us all.

Karen it’s hard to believe it’s been two years. I was with Jayden when it happened and I’ll never forget the pain on his face he was trying so hard to hide. Thank you for sending Donna into my life. She has been a blessing to me and I hope I am for her. I forgot how creative Heather was with this obituary and got to share a smile thinking of you.

Today is your 63rd birthday and I hoping you are enjoying an extra large cappuccino. Miss you every day.

It's been a year since you left us, and not a day goes by without a thought of you. It has taken me two weeks to get past the anniversary tears so I can say that I miss you so much. I miss our conversations, even though they were through Heather and I miss the pictures of your smile. Be patient, Sis, I promise I will join you for cappucino eventually.  Love and miss you.

Karen I consider myself honored to have become a part of your family. My son was lucky enough to fall in love with your beautiful daughter Heather and eventually married. I will never forget their wedding day. You had an absolutely beautiful blue dress on and you never stopped smiling the entire evening. I can remember Heather taking you on the dance floor and dancing with you. I loved seeing how happy you were and I remember telling you how beautiful you were and as always you were full of smiles. This was the day of two families became one. I couldn’t ask for a better in-law family. 
Then both of our families were blessed to become first time grandparents the same day to our sweet grandson Jayden. We sat in the waiting area to see Heather Ken and Jayden and we were all excited. I will never forget the glow in your eyes and beautiful smile on your face when you placed your eyes on our beautiful grandson. I’ll never forget Heather coming over to you and helping you hold him. I had tears in my eyes then as I do now. As a joined family thanks to our wonderful children we experienced some great times and very memorable moments. These are moments I will always treasure and never forget.
I know you know this beyond the shadow of a doubt but you have an amazing family that stood by you and took wonderful care of you even though no matter the challenge you attempted your best to remain independent. I admired your courage. I faced my medical condition and just wanted to give up. Still don’t have the courage or strength you have and mine don’t even compare to the challenges you have. I hope I can use you as a role model and find just a tiny bit of the strength you had so I can fight my medical challenge.
Karen you were an amazing lady with the most amazing family I ever met. Despite your challenges you and Chris did a fantastic job and I know you are proud of Istvan and Heather and their families. You were loved by so many. I hope you keep that smile on your face. I can’t picture you without it. We love you and we will do our best to help your family through their difficult loss of the best mom and wife in the world.

Many happy memories of Karen going back to the pretzel days. Always had a smile and joking around.

Karen and I both started working as telephone operators in Freeport while in high school, then we both joined the U.S. Air Force. A shame we didn't get to go to Lackland for training at the same time, then maybe we would have gotten stationed together too, but I guess it was for the best since we both met our husbands-to-be while at our first duty station, Karen in Germany and me in the Azore Islands. After that, we both got married but were unable to attend each other's wedding. We did keep in touch sending photos and letters through the years and did get together one summer in Freeport and got to meet each other's family and what made it really special was that Rosemary and her family were also there, so for a short time, the 3 friends were together once again.

Karen, you are leading this journey ahead this time. Let me know where all the good coffee shops are so we can drink our fill when I get there and finally catch up on all we've done.  I love you, little sister.