Karen Kay Pocowatchit's Obituary
Karen Kay Barrow (Pocowatchit), age 74 of Tucson, AZ was born August 9, 1949, in Denver, Colorado to Dorothy Jones. Karen went to her heavenly home on May 28th, 2024, at home. Karen enjoyed her career in computers and working from home. She also enjoyed relaxing while watching her favorite t.v. shows. She also enjoyed being outside and caring for her horses and at times her chickens. Karen graduated from high school in Kansas and moved to Wichita Kansas where she attended cosmetology training and graduated. Karen met and married Dennis Pocowatchit Sr. ( a member of the Comanche Nation tribe of Oklahoma). They enjoyed spending time outdoors, traveling, swimming, and cooking out with Dennis’s family and loved attending native American pow-wows. The couple enjoyed the birth of their first child, a daughter named Dennise Suzanne Pocowatchit and a few years later they had another child, a son. Karen divorced Dennis Sr. and years later she studied computers at vo-tech in Wichita Kansas and eventually worked towards the title of MIS specialist. Karen moved between Kansas and Oklahoma for a few years all the while continuing her computer education. While living in Lawton, Oklahoma she became an outside contractor who traveled to multiple bases across the country, so she could train individuals and at times groups in computers education. Karen relocated to Tucson, AZ in the late 1980’s and worked for multiple companies such as United Way of Tucson and years later went to work as an MIS specialist fir Codac health care and a few years later she moved on to compass health care. Karen was working for herself as an independent consultant. Then while Karen was working at La Frontera as a consultant, she was hired on as a full-time employee and she was continuing her education in computers. Karen enjoyed her career and loved waking up every day in Tucson, Arizona. She loved the very very hot dry heat in Tucson, AZ. Karen owned a house with two acres of land on the out skirts of Tucson, AZ. Karen enjoyed and loved her life, she was a loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Karen enjoyed and loved having all of her amazing and outstanding friends around her. Karen lived an amazing and very full life and will be missed dearly by all her surviving family and friends.
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