Dawanda joined her savoir, Jesus Christ, and many family members and friends in Heaven, on March 19, 2019. She grew up in the Kansas City Waldo areas and graduated from Southwest High School in 1946. At Southwest Baptist College, Bolivar, she met and married Howard Karr.
She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Ray Junior and Victor Eugene Hutchison and one son, Daniel Merle Karr.
During her life, she was a faithful servant of Jesus Christ in the ministry of the Gospel with her husband of 71 years. At the time of her passing, she was a beloved charter member of Faith Baptist Church, Smithville, Missouri.
In addition to a host of fellow laborers in the church she served, she is survived by her husband, four children, fourteen loving grandchildren, and nineteen great grandchildren.
Dawanda's footprints of effective Christian witness are clearly seen everywhere she walked with Jesus and His people during her life.
