Karen Neal

Mrs. Karen Lucinda Neal, age 54, of Mountain Creek Road, Dial, passed away Monday, May 30, 2022, at her home surrounded by her loving family.

Karen was born May 14, 1968, in Maryville, Tennessee.

Surviving Karen are two children, Nathaniel Robert Neal and Cassondra Nicole Neal, now legally Jaden Azariah Trent; the love of Karen’s life, Paul Garrett; former husband and father of her children, Robert Douglas Neal, all of Dial.

This is Karen’s epitaph:

I Am Always

I am a steamy cup of coffee

I am a musty antique mall

A barefoot shuffle thru the grass

A two-step and a waltz

I am the crabapple a blossoming

I am fireflies in May

A cold river plunge in August

A lazy hot summer day

I am an Amish doughnut

An apple stack cake

Fresh grilled squash….Fried taters

That my baby did make

I’ve walked amongst the blackest of panthers

Danced with fishes and soared with crows

I’ve worshiped in a sacred hemlock forest

During a profoundly deep and silent snow

Before my birth my children were divinely blessed

By a magical mistress mountain lion

With late night visits to my window

She spoke in growlin’ grumblin’ signs

I am a bright and starry night

And tender hugs meant just for you

I. AM. ALWAYS. WITH. YOU

In everything you do

K. L. N.

Matthew 17:20                                                         

Mountain View Funeral Home, of Blairsville, Georgia, was in charge of the arrangements.

To sign the family guest book and send condolences visit ww.mountainviewfuneralhome.com.