Karen Elizabeth Pearson

Karen Elizabeth Pearson passed away on May 7, 2014 at Life Care of Sandpoint of Sandpoint. Services were held on Saturday, May 17, 2014 at 2:00pm in 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 OBGYN 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 & 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, & Tracey and their children, and Eric's daughter Sherry and her children. Aunt Karen wrote this a few months ago for 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.