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Karen Elizabeth Pearson
May 28, 1940  ~  May 7, 2014
May 23, 2014
Karen Elizabeth Pearson passed away on May 7, 2014 at Life Care of Sandpoint. Services were held on Saturday, May 17, 2014 an the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

I was born May 28, 1940 in Painesville, Ohio to Carl Einar Pearson and Mary Marguerite Shepherd. I was one of five children being right in the middle. My father was born in Hagfors, Sweden on 2 July 1902. My mom was born 28 May 1911, in Wayne, Ohio. My first memories are centered in Painesville. I remember my parents liked to take Sunday drives. We would often take a picnic and stop somewhere along the way to have lunch.

I worked after high school. I went to LPN school and did well. I was hired at the University Hospital of Cleveland. I worked 3 to 11:30 shift on the OB-GYN floor. I loved the job, and it gave me something to smile about. I liked the patients and many of them would talk to me about their problems. I always tried to help them the best way I could. I helped deliver well over a thousand babies in the 31 years I worked there.

My favorites: the color red, spaghetti, reading, cheese cake, sunny days, knitting and crochet. I have taken many of the things I made to county fairs and won many blue and gold ribbons and prizes. I always tried to live a good life.

I am the last of my immediate family. I am preceded in death by both of my parents, my older brother Carl Jr., older sister Mary Ann, younger sister Beth, and younger brother Eric. I am survived by my son Stephen, two granddaughters and one grandson; Carl's girls Cindi, Carol, Cathi, and their children; Mary Ann's kids, Stephanie and Michael, and their children; Beth's kids, Robert, Gene, John, Vicky, and Tracey and their children, and Eric's daughter Sherry and her children.

Aunt Karen wrote this a few months ago for a family genealogy that she and I had been working on. Karen was kind, loving, caring, and had an ornery side too! Wherever she saw a need, she tried to do something about it. She made many baby afghans and lap afghans for many different people. I can most assuredly say she did try to live a good life.