BOMBER MEMORIAL

KAREN LEE INGALSBE GREENWELL ~ Class of 1968
May 25, 1950 - November 12, 2013

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Karen Lee Ingalsbe Greenwell, 63, passed away peacefully on November 12, 2013, at home in Murray, UT from ovarian cancer, with which she was first diagnosed nearly 5 years ago. Karen was born May 25, 1950 in Richland to Lewis Henry Ingalsbe and Dorothy Leone Maxfield Ingalsbe.

Karen was raised in Richland and graduated near the top of her class from Columbia High School. She attended BYU and graduated from the honors program with a Bachelor's degree majoring in Spanish, with a minor in English and was a certified teacher. After teaching High School in Idaho for a year, she served a full-time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Spain Madrid mission. Following her mission, while working on post-graduate studies at BYU, she was introduced to her sweetheart Duff Allen Greenwell, and they were married and sealed in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple on June 24, 1976. She was a master teacher having taught students from First Grade, to Junior High to High School, and even college. In later years, after her children were raised, she was able to return to teaching part-time. Her greatest joy in teaching came as she taught the principles of the Gospel and the atonement of Jesus Christ, whether to adults, youth, or children, having taught faithfully to all of these groups. She was an expert genealogist and served several church service missions in the Family History Library Mission for the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, and she also worked as a consultant in the Family History Library. While her cancer was in remission, she was able to fulfill a long held dream, goal and prophesied life event, which was to serve a 2-year church service mission, with her sweetheart as her companion, teaching Jesus Christ and His Atonement, in the beautiful Spanish language.

Karen's greatest joy and sense of satisfaction and accomplishment came from teaching and raising her four children, and now her grandchildren. She rejoiced in, and magnified her divine calling as mother and wife.

Karen wanted everyone to know that she was able to learn and accomplish what God wanted her to do while here on earth, and that she finished her work here. "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith" (2 Timothy 4:7). This was the time that God appointed for her to move on from this mortal life, to continue her learning and her teaching and her watchful care from beyond the veil.

She is survived by her husband. Also by her four children and their spouses, and eight grandchildren: Jordan and his wife Sherry, their children Abby, Anna, and Porter; April Fenn and her husband Daniel, their children Jerry Daniel, Jr. (JD) and Karen Vivian; Allen and his wife SaraAnne, their daughters Hailey and Allison; David and his wife Kaitlyn, their daughter Hadley. She is also survived by her sister Cassie Ingalsbe McElroy ('70), and mother-in-law Myrtle Greenwell.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a younger sister Terry Ann ('73), and her father-in-law Emmett Greenwell.

Funeral services were held November 16, 2013, in the Murray 13th LDS Ward Chapel, Murray, UT. Interment in the Larkin Sunset Gardens, 1950 East 10600 South, Sandy, UT.

In lieu of flowers please make a donation in Karen's name to the General Missionary Fund, the Humanitarian Aid Fund of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or to a worthy charity of your choice.

Guest Book online until December 15, 2013.

Published in the Tri-City Herald November 15 and 16, 2013.