Karen Kaye Clayton

She was born August 25, 1945 in Evansville, Indiana to the late Norman O. Krauss and Louise H. (Haller) Krauss.

Karen, the middle child of 3 and social butterfly was the type of person you couldn’t take anywhere without running into someone she knew. Her gift of gab and contagious laugh would ring out in conversations that always lasted longer than any one of her children or grandchildren cared to witness. Graduating from Evansville’s North High School and working at Weinbach’s as a cashier and seasonal gift wrapper, she met and fell in love with her late husband Emanuel “Woody” Clayton. Karen was very active in reunion planning for the class of 1963, Go Huskies! She spent her leisure time cross-stitching, sewing some of the greatest pairs of pajama pants you could ever want to wear, playing card games and farkle with her family, and making the tastiest potato bread to use for sandwiches on long boat trips down at the lake house (which we have all been to). She also was a small business owner, proprietor of Das Nadel Haus from 1980 until 1987 when she transitioned her career into the financial sector. Having gotten her walker out the front door, we know the heavens welcome her as they have gained one more great angel to watch over all of us in Grace.

She is survived by her 2 children, Kristin Kaye Finnan (57), Nickolas Owen Clayton (50), her 4 grandchildren Brandon Tyler-Owen Durden (37), Shelby Wayne Jeffers (34), Andrew Nickolas Clayton (25) and Olivia Louise Clayton (19) as well as her late husband’s most honorable companion Millie (10) a Yorkshire Terrier.

Immense gratitude to the Linda E. White Hospice House for their care, compassion and attentiveness in such trying times.

In lieu of flowers the family humbly requests making donations to the Linda E. White Hospice House.

The family will post information for the Celebration of Life at a later date.

Condolences may be offered at www.AlexanderWestChapel.com.