By profession Karen is a hairdresser (for over 40 years). She has also done some genealogical research and has been helpful as a source for information on her immediate family.

There were no children by her second marriage.

A family picnic in Francis Park, St. Louis, MO on 23 Aug. 1945. Karen is the dark-haired, 2-year-old girl in her mother's lap on our right.
Click on this thumbnail to enlargen the picture of Karen as a teen, perhaps from 1961.

The St. Louis County Directory of 1955 shows Albert T. Thoma, plaster contractor, with his wife Mary, living at 7121 Stafford Ct. in Affton, MO. The County Directory of 1958 has the same information. The County Dir. of 1961 shows Albert T. Thoma, with his wife Mary E., plasterer, living at 7121 Stafford Ct. in Affton, MO.

Karen married in 1962 and a child was born. She remarried in 1975.

Her father died on 4 Aug. 1987 and was buried in Jefferson Barracks Cemetery in St. Louis.

Karen is living in Arizona.

Her sister Mary moved to Arizona in 2001 but moved back to St. Louis County soon afterwards. Her sister Linda remarried recently and they are living in St. Louis.

Her mother moved to Arizona in 2002 and is still living as of Dec. 2003, in a nursing home. She died on 07 Apr. 2005 in Yuma, Arizona.

Created 21 June, 2000  Updated on 19 Jun. 2005.