Karen Lynn Jarrell was born in Flint, Michigan on August 10, 1956, and passed away in an Oklahoma City hospital on December 5, 2016, at the age of 60 years.
She had grown up in Michigan. She had lived in Lawton, Oklahoma for many years and had worked for Dr. Parikh, the Heart and Vascular Center and with Comanche County Memorial Hospital. Karen was president of the Sweet Adeline's in Lawton and a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church.
On November 5, 1985, she was married to Richard Boyd Jarrell in Essex, Missouri.
Surviving are her husband, Richard Jarrell of Lawton, Oklahoma; three brothers, Darryl Letts, Matt Letts and Nelson Letts, Jr.; a special cousin, Nelson Hahn of Moore, Oklahoma; several brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law as well as many nieces and nephews. Other relatives and friends also survive.
Visitations will be held Friday, December 9, 2016, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home in Lawton, Oklahoma.
Graveside services will be held on Monday, December 12, 2016, at 11:00 a.m. at the Missouri Veteran's Cemetery in Bloomfield, interment will follow with Watkins & Sons Funeral Service of Dexter in charge of arrangements.