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Karen
Cook © KUED 2000
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In Memory of Karen Cook
Karen was born February 10, 1958, in San Luis Obispo, California, to Robert Elmer Bardwell and Lula Pattison. She married Ralph Vardis Cook May 28, 1988. Karen was the kind of person who took what life handed her and made the best of it. Her greatest accomplishment and the source of her greatest joy was the birth of her two sons, Kyle Curtis Cook, 8, and James Ryan Cook, 2 1/2. She said many times, "I never knew I could love so much."
Karen passed after a long and courageous battle with ovarian cancer. Her love of her children and her desire to raise them made giving up unacceptable. However, her strong belief in Christ and the knowledge of His infinite wisdom helped her to accept that her time on earth was finished. She died peacefully at home under the care of family and the hospice nurses who had become her friends.
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