Karen Kay Bryan
 
 
A graveside service for Karen Kay (Fry) Bryan, age 74, of Heath, will be held on Friday, August 6 at 10 a.m. at Cedar Hill Cemetery with Pastor Mark Shoemaker, officiating.

Karen passed away on August 3, 2021 at her residence with her loving family by her side. She was born on May 10, 1947 in Newark to the late Roger H. and Choral Jean (Donavan) Fry.

Karen was a 1965 graduate of Newark High School. She later met her husband, Kenneth H. Bryan, and married him on September 3, 1965 in Alstead, New Hampshire. They started their family, raising two sons who loved to play sports. Together, Ken and Karen balanced attending sporting events for each of them. Karen cared for others as she did for her family. She even was the first woman on the Mary Ann Township Fire Department to make a squad run. She enjoyed listening to country music, especially artists, Patsy Cline, Mickey Gilley, and Willie Nelson.

She retired from Harlow's True Value Hardware Store and retired again after 21 years of service from Walmart in Heath. She loved to travel and most dearly loved her family.

She was a member of the Heisey Collectors of America, and the member of Madison Township Fire Department Auxiliary, Newark Eagles FOE #387, Eastern Star #597 and White Shrine Rosa Chapter 8.

Karen is survived by her husband, Kenneth Bryan; two sons, Steven (Cindy) Bryan and Scott (Leea) Bryan; four grandchildren, Tyler (Holly Young ) Bryan, Nathan (Ashley) Bryan, Melanie Kay Bryan and Lane Thomas Bryan; two step-grandsons, Cannon Stewart and Aiden Bennett; as well as three great-grandchildren, Kamdin, Kohen and Charlotte.

In addition to her parents, Karen is preceded in death by her sister, Beverly Price.
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2023
Rex Ropp  
Jeffrey Swartz  
Bob Wagner  

2022
Geraldine Byrne (Diaz-Peterson)  
Jack Downing
Phyllis Gibson (Ellas)  
Paula Hopkins (Rink)  
Doug Montanaro  

2021
Nancy Bunn  
Bonnie Burleson (McLoughlin)  
Karen Fry (Bryan)
Bruce Goddard  
Carolyn Martin (Wiseman)  
Gary Moore  
Myron Snow  

2020
Donald Braddock  
Ted Handel  
Sally Hughes  
Jack Jones  
William Keaser  
Lynn Martin (Dymtryk)  
Cathy Nethers (Edgell)  
William Speaks  
Philip Vermillion  
Bruce Wintermute  

2019
John Booher  
Diana Fairall (Priest)  
James Finck  
Carolyn Kidd (Bell)  
Valorie Knowlton  
Sharon Snelling (Henry)  

2018
Mary McConnell  
Robert Mossman  
Michele Ranzenberger (Gromeleski)  
Anita Shaw (Smith)  
Timothy Vermillion  

2017
Paul Stevens  
Sue Stone (Jacks)  
Judith Westbrook (Brown)  
Marie Wilson (Bradley)  

2016
Frederick Henthorne  
Sharon Lallathin (Carson)  
Ann Lawton (Hardy)  
George Franklin Ridgeway  

2015
Carol Bodoh (Bowman)
James William Bope
Sharon Penick (O'Reilly)  
David Ridenbaugh
Rodney Scott
Bobby Sellers  

2014
Frank Board
James Hand
John Helphrey
Jo Ann Heskett (Dixon)  
Clyde (Ed) Houdeshell

2013
Vernon "Butch" Alberry  
Nancy Baker (Barnett)  
Jayne Dunlap (Houdeshell)  
Carl Edward Jones  
Phil Rico  
Donald Ward
Thomas Wolford

2012
Robert Cadegan  
Ralph Carpenter
Paul Eckleberry  
Frederick Iler
Linda Sue Johnson (Williams)
Don Miller
Sue Priest (Morrow)  
Esther Jane Williams

2011
Cheryl Miller  
Robert Shrivers  
Jeff Thompson  

2010
Rod Compton  
Stanley Wolfe

2009
Larry Gifford  
Robert Kirk  
John McIntosh  

2008
Sharon Rector  

2007
Roger Mitchell  

2006
William LeFever

2005
John Marriott
Phil Metzger

1993
Phyllis Symons (Whyde)

1968
Joe Schmidt  

1965
Terri Bagent

DECEASED YEAR UNKNOWN
Bonita Bierly
Sara Bond (Helder)
Joe Boyer
Sheryl Braddock
Craig Brown
Jack Brown
Karen Brown (Palmer)
Linda Cline
Eva Corsi
Edwin Harold Cross
Elease DeVeaux
Faye Dunfee (Plummer)
Janet Elswick
James Feeney
Sherry Gard
John Green
Charles Hartzell
Richard Hickman
John Hunkins
Natalie Hunt
Patricia Huston
George Jacobs
James Alford Jobes
Frederick Johnson
Teresa Justice (Muston)
Sharon Leora Kelley (Sweazy)
Jerry King
Diana Kohler
Danny Landis
Michael Lang
George Loper
Alice Loudermilk
Alice Marise
Margie McCoy (Myers)
Doug McVey
Robert Meinhardt
Connie Moran (Santee)
Daniel Mossholder
Sharon Owen (Ulrey)
Ronald Pound
Rita Richardson
Betty Roark (Kissell)
Charles Sheppard
Linda Stephenson
James Thompson
Kim Wallace (O'Neill)
Janice Watson (Hagerman)
Ronald Weekly
Linda Wolfe (Miller)

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