Obituaries

Karen Lou Perry passed away on April 7, 2026, after a recent illness. She was born in 1933 in Aurora to Vernon and Florence Hagarity and was the youngest of three sisters. As a young girl, Karen moved to Beatrice where she graduated from high school. In 1952, she was attending college at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln when she met Richard Perry at a summer picnic. They fell in love and were married six months later in Gibbon. Together they created and raised a family of three sons and a daughter and were married for 68 years.