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Karen M. Harding, 60, of Onawa, Iowa died Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017, at Pleasant View Care Center in Whiting, Iowa after a long, courageous battle with cancer.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, at the Rush Family Chapel in Onawa, Iowa with Evangelist Dale Wolf officiating. Burial will follow in the Whiting City Cemetery, Whiting, Iowa. Visitation will be held 9 a.m. until service time Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, at the chapel. Arrangements are under the direction of Rush Family Care Service in Onawa.

Karen Marie was born January 9, 1957, in Onawa, Iowa to Merlin Ralph and Phyllis Joan (Whitehorn) Myers. She attended the Missouri Valley and Onawa elementary schools and graduated from Whiting High School in 1975.

On October 9, 1976, she married Roger Warren Harding in Onawa. Two children were born to this union, Nicole Marie and Jacob Warren.

She loved music, traveling, rock collecting, gardening, and cake decorating. She was an avid poet and always enjoyed helping others, assisting with 4-H and school concessions, helping to organize Whiting’s 4th of July parade, and many other activities.

Survivors include her parents, Merlin and Phyllis Myers, of Blair; her daughter, Nicole (Joe) Hewitt of Wilton, Iowa; her son, Jake Harding of Castana, Iowa; two grandchildren, Aiden and Oliver Hewitt of Wilton, Iowa; a brother, Anthony Myers of College Station, Texas; a sister, Crystal (Dave) Zima of Blair; and two nieces, Karleigh and Makenzie Zima of Blair.

She was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Ralph and Anna (Ketchum) Myers, and maternal grandparents, Howard and June (Leff) Whitehorn.

Condolences may be left online for the family at www.rushfamilycareservice.com.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~