Karen Dee Gillaspie, age 74, died at the Grisell Memorial Hospital on April 10, 2019. She was born on July 28, 1944 in Quinter, Kansas the daughter of Kenneth and Izetta Johnson Shaw.

She was married to Jerry Gillaspie. Together they had two children Rod Gillaspie of Utica and Tina Major of Peyto, Colorado.

A family scattering service of her cremated remains will be held at a later date.