Karen Lynn Meyers DeWire Lessig, 60, of Saylorsburg passed away to be with the Lord on January 17, 2011 in the VNA Hospice in East Stroudsburg.
Born April 4, 1950 in Bloomsbury, NJ she was the daughter of the late Dorothy and John Meyers.
Karen
was a landscaper for many years in the Marshall’s Creek and the Pocono
area, having owned Mountain Landscape & Design. Prior to that she
worked at the Hunterdon State School in Clinton, NJ. She enjoyed
gardening and her flowers & bushes; loved the woods and wild
animals. She was a 1968 graduate of Phillipsburg High School. In her
younger years she enjoyed horseback riding and playing baseball. She
also collected antiques. She had a big heart and would always help the
less fortunate.
She was of the Mormon faith.
Karen is
survived by her husband, Kirk of Scranton; two sons, John Henderson and
his wife, Kristen of Saylorsburg and Michael Henderson and his wife,
Lori, of South Carolina; a brother, John and his wife, Anna, of
Cookstown, NJ; three sisters, Joan Miller in South Carolina, Carolyn
Unangst and her husband, Joe, of Stewartsville and Ginger LeCause of
Lopatcong Township; 3 grandchildren, Josh Covel, Kadyn Covel and Michael
Noah Henderson; many cousins, nieces and nephews; two dogs, Samantha
and Baby and a cat, Sasha. A daughter, Heidi Lynn DeWire passed away in
January, 2010 and a grandson, Anthony, also died earlier.
Memorial
funeral services will be held Saturday at 4 p.m. in the Doyle-Devlin
Funeral Home, Inc., 695 Corliss Avenue, Phillipsburg. Visitation will be
held from 3 p.m. to time of services in the funeral home. Interment
will be held at a later date in Bloomsbury Cemetery.
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