Karen was born in Elizabeth, NJ, on October 6, 1946, the daughter of Dr. Ansel R, and Ann (Scutakes) Carnahan. She was graduated from Montpelier, VT, high school in 1965 and from Vernon Court Junior College in Newport, RI, in 1967. Following graduation, she moved to California and remained a California resident for most of her life.
Karen enjoyed a wonderful childhood in central Vermont, where her father had a veterinary practice. As a child, she enjoyed riding her horse, accompanying her father on veterinary calls around the Vermont countryside, watching surgeries, collecting stray animals, playing with her sisters, growing frogs, looking for fool’s gold, floating handmade boats in the brook, fishing, and conspiring with her sisters to sneak pets into the house. As an adult, her love of animals continued, and she enjoyed gardening, photography, rafting down the American River, and spending time with friends and family. She worked as a stewardess for Pacific Southwest Airlines and later worked as an interior designer. In 2016, she moved to Maryland to be close to her son Travis and his family. She spent the last years of her life caring for her granddaughters, playing and laughing and watching them grow. Her family and friends will long remember her as a “people-magnet” with a quick wit, someone who could find the humor in any situation.
She will be lovingly remembered by her son Travis Crane and his wife Sarah, her granddaughters Madison and Annabelle Crane, her sisters Jill Edson and husband George of Cornish, NH, Connie Krueger and husband Paul of Beverly, MA , her nieces Elizabeth Ellingson, Emily Jones, Abigail Edson, Gwendolyn Krueger, and her nephew Jonathan Krueger, her Uncle Jack Carnahan and Aunt Dorothy Landers and many cousins. She was predeceased by her parents Ansel and Ann Carnahan of Montpelier.
A memorial service will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Friday, June 8, at Christ Episcopal Church in Columbia, MD. A reception will follow in the church hall. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions be made in Karen’s memory to Shriners Hospitals for Children (https://donate.lovetotherescue.org/give/119312/?utm_source=shcmain#!/donation/checkout).
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