Karen Faith (Miller) LeFebvre 1946 - 2023

MILLER, LEFEBVRE, RIDLEY, WADERICH

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 2/13/2023 at 12:53:22

Sioux City Journal
8 January 2023

Karen Faith (Miller) LeFebvre

Moville, Iowa

Karen Faith (Miller) LeFebvre, 76, of Moville passed away Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, at a local hospital.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday at Central Baptist Church with Reverend Lloyd Grant officiating. Visitation with the family will be held one hour prior at the church. Burial will be at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Mapleton, Iowa. Arrangements are with Meyer Brothers Morningside Chapel.

Karen was born Sept. 9, 1946, to Chalmers and Bernice (Ridley) Miller. She was raised on a farm near Mapleton and attended and graduated from Maple Valley in 1965. After graduation she worked for Mutual of Omaha in the underwriting department in Omaha, Neb. In June of 1965, Karen married Don Waderich in Mapleton at St. John's Methodist Church. To this marriage, three children were born. After 18 years of marriage, the couple divorced.

For 12 years Karen taught Emergency Technician Classes in the Danbury, Mapleton, Anthon, and Oto areas and helped serve as a training officer on the Danbury Ambulance Service. In January of 1986 Karen married John LeFebvre, helping to raise his two sons ages three and six at their marriage.

John and Karen lived 25 years in Sioux City where Karen worked in the kitchens of the Burger King Company. The couple then moved to Moville.

She is survived by her husband John LeFebvre; three children John (Candace) Waderich, Mindi (Kevin) Boyle, and Suzanne (Billy) Wabashaw; two stepsons Zachary LeFebvre and Chad LeFebvre; eight grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren with two in the oven; sister Marsha Bell; brother Steven (Grace) Miller; two nieces; two nephews; cousins; many friends; and John's family.

Karen was preceded in death by her parents; and John's dad Ronald LeFebvre.