Age 68, Lawton - Graveside service will be 11:00 a.m. Monday in Sunset Memorial Gardens with Dr. Norma Quinn officiating. Mrs. Denison died Sunday, October 24 in a Lawton hospital. Burial will be under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. Karen was born on November 25, 1941 in Hobart, Oklahoma, to Jesse I. "Dutch" and Esther L. (Underwood) Denison. The family lived in San Antonio, Texas, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Lawton. Karen went to Whittier Elementary, Lawton Junior and Senior High schools, graduating in 1959. She attended Stephens College for Women in Columbia, Missouri, the University of Oklahoma, and graduated from Central State University in 1963. In 1973 she received her Master's MBS from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She married twice. Karen began her teaching career in 1964 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, retiring in 1994 in Lawton. She taught two years in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, three years in Mannheim, Germany, and three years at Sleepy Hollow in Fairfax County, Virginia. These positions gave her the opportunities to travel which she loved so much. Her memberships included the Junior Service League, Delta Delta Delta Alumnae, and the Lawton Community Theater Board of Directors where she served as president of the board from 1981 to 1985. She was also one of the originators of the Lawton Philharmonic and the Showcase of Homes. Memorial contributions may be made to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City OK 73104-9930.