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Karen Sue
Gregory (Kramer)

June 27, 1945 – April 19, 2020

Karen Gregory
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2020-04-20 12:41:42
Leslie H
I worked with Karen at Communication Service for the Deaf for years . I really liked her and considered her a good friend. I'm so sorry to hear of her passing. RIP Karen.
2022-08-16 16:42:30
jimmy
happy mothers day...
2020-05-10 23:07:38
Nancy Krupp Robertson
I met Karen at Stagg High School. I was new to Stockton from 9th grade on. Somehow I met Karen, Mary and Sally and we had so many good experiences for the rest of high school...except for Karen. As others mentioned she did not have the loving home with a family who cherished her. We were Karen's family. We had to lie and sneak to get her out sometimes, but she was with us most of the time. I remember one Easter Week we went to Santa Cruz in my 53 Chevy. We sang "99 bottles of beer" on the wall when we hit HWY 17. I remember the baby shower at the Kramer's house for Jimmy. Karen always worked hard and got by. As others said she never complained. Others mentioned about her step-mom. The moment she learned of the new friend Nancy, Alma found my family telephone number. She called my mother and told her that Karen was bad and not to let me hang around with her. I did not know this. I asked Mom if Karen could spend the night soon thereafter. Mom asked who was she? I told her. Then Mom forbade me from being with her. I told my mother it was wrong that her stepmother hated her. Mom could not imagine this as why would someone do that. So I said okay. After that when Karen came to my house her name was Lynn. Mom had not met her. I eventually told my mom the rest of the story. I note that we all loved Karen and wanted for her to be happy and loved. I think we may have felt guilty that we had so much more. I remember the surprise birthday party given at her Foster Family's home. I think it was her first and only birthday party. We all came. We ate, danced, and had fun. It was odd at the time. Her Father and Alma were not there. We were there for Karen. Karen, you will be remembered and missed. May you be at peace dear friend.
2020-04-22 23:35:30
Mudgie
It is with great sadness that I say good by to my dear friend Karen. I know you are in a much better place. I will miss you my friend. We had so much fun playing Yahtzee’s and watching movies. Our last conversation after her hospital stay was what health messes we both were, we laughed and kept on talking. My deepest condolences to Jimmy and Danielle.
2020-04-22 23:02:08
Mary (Nichols) Benz
I met Karen when we 12 yrs old (62 yrs ago) and the rest is history. My family thought of Karen as family. Throughout all the years, they would ask how Karen was doing. When you say "life is not fair" that was very true for Karen. As I read what Pat Frederick wrote, I related to every word. Karen's stepmother was beyond horrible to her. She had to be jealous of Karen. She definitely did her best to try to run off Karen's friends, but she couldn't. I spent the night there and Alma made us sleep in separate rooms. Not normal for teenage girls. But, we got together and climbed out the bedroom window and we didn't get caught! so there evil stepmother! I could go on...with all that said, Karen was very strong to come out of all those years to become the wonderful, kind person she was. Never did she complain and she was so supportive of her friends. She always had my back. I will miss her but she will live in my heart always. She was-no-is my forever friend. Be happy in heaven Karen Sue, you deserve it.
2020-04-22 19:51:11
Pat Frederick
Our parents bought the house next door to Karen's family in 1949. She was 4 years old when we met her. I was 6 years old. My sisters Jo and Anne were a year old, and Paula was born that year. We grew up with Karen and she was like a sister to us. We have so many memories of her that we cannot summarize them in this space. The most significant is when Karen was 10 or 11 years old her father took her to the circus. When they got home they found that her mother had drowned in the bathtub. It was ruled a suicide. Karen was an only chid. Her father married another woman who had a son 4 years older than Karen. That woman treated Karen so harshly that my father had Karen removed from the home and made a foster child. (Her stepmother did things like go into the closet and cut up Karen's clothes with scissors). Karen lived with a foster family down the street from our house and we saw her frequently. She never told anyone of these events in her life. She never got therapy for those events. I want people to know why she had such a need to have a dogs, or dogs, in her life. They helped her to find peace from those early childhood events. She was a wounded child, but she found the determination to survive as an adult. I have so much respect for her. She was like a sister to me and my other sisters. I know she is in a much better place now.
2020-04-22 15:32:48
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