Karen Jean Brown
Beloved sister, aunt and friend;
With profound sadness we announce our beloved sister has slipped peacefully away to be reunited with our parents Thelma (Champlin) Brown and Joseph Brown. She passed away on Wednesday evening September 11, 2019 after a ten year battle with metastatic breast cancer.
Karen attended Lowell schools and graduated from Lowell High School in the class of 1975.
In a career which spanned for over 40 years, Karen worked for the Raytheon Corporation when she began at the Lowell location and then later transferred to the Andover offices when the South Lowell plant closed its doors until her retirement in 2017.
A very proud member of the IBEW Local 1505 Union, Raytheon was like her second home, as she had a multitude of close friends who supported her tremendously during her battle with cancer over ten years.
An avid Boston sports fan, particularly for the Sox and Pats, Karen never missed watching a single, solitary Red Sox or Patriots game.
Second to her deep love of Boston sports, Karen truly loved going to the beach. Two years ago she found her “happy place” and decided to purchase a home in Seabrook, NH. She loved to travel and was a voracious reader.
Karen is survived by two sisters, Colleen Gagnon of Manchester, NH and Lynne (Brown-Zounes) Cote and her husband Ron of Catalina, AZ; her former brothers-in-law Scott McGrath and Billy Zounes both of Lowell; her niece Jaime Dillon and her husband Michael of Worcester and their children Hailey, Taylor DaSilva and Aidan Dillon; her nephew Jason McGrath and his wife Connie of Oro Valle, AZ and their children Serene Wagner and Paige McGrath as well as many aunts, uncles with great memories of fun times with them and their cousins.
Karen also enjoyed the time she spent with her many childhood friends including Cindy and Kevin Perrault, Eileen and Michael Gauthier, Darlene Ryan, Scott Keeley and her second family at Raytheon Corporation.
She was the sister in law of the late Paul Gagnon.
Friends may call at the O’DONNELL FUNERAL HOME, 276 PAWTUCKET ST. in LOWELL Saturday morning from 9:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. followed by her Funeral Service to be celebrated in the Funeral Home at 11:30 A.M. Her Committal Services will be private for the family at a later date. E-Condolences may be made at www.odonnellfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her memory to St. Jude’s Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN, 38101. Arrangements by Funeral Director James F. O’Donnell, Jr..
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