Karen Sue Dewberry Hilburn

How do you summarize a life? So many days and so many memories shared when you are family growing up, living each day!  The only way is to focus on who Karen was as a beloved daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt, niece, cousin, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend.  She brought her own big heart to our family, her own dreams, loves, desires and life.  Like all of us she knew happiness and heartache, but in all, she chose to focus on her love and heart for her family. In her young adult years, Karen expressed her heart in music and poetry and then in raising her three children.  She was the proud mother of Christopher, Tessa, and Miranda and loving grandmother to Thomas, Kris, Kaden, Justin, Dannyca, Keith, and Ashley.  Her further testimony included two great grandchildren, Jennifer Rose and Alexander Walker Haak.

So many words describe Karen. She had a strong spirit, a loving heart, and a compassionate soul.  Karen was also, by nature, loving, generous, thoughtful, kind, and in recent years she poured those attributes out on her grandchildren and made a home for herself and Keith near family.  To know her is to love her.  In all, she had the “patience of Job”, and a heart for prayer as she was often praying for her family!  Karen held her faith in Jesus and His words close to her heart!  That faith is best expressed through the words of Jesus in John 14.

“14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am!”