Karen Lynn Dickerson
April 16, 1976 ~ January 3, 2015
Karen Lynn Dickerson (Rundle), age 38, passed away at home surrounded by her family on Saturday, January 3, 2015 after an 18-month battle with Inflammatory Breast cancer.
Born April 16, 1976 in Cheverly, Maryland, she graduated from Old Mill High School, Millersville, MD in 1994. She went on to obtain a Bachelor of Science in Marketing at Shepherd College in 1998 and was a member of the Delta Zeta sorority. Upon completing college, she married James Dickerson, M.D. and began her career as a military wife and mother. Her adventures included volunteering at the various posts where they were stationed and authoring a book on Steven Shields highlighting his career as an artist. Her most treasured role was that of mother to her four children: Jamie, age 10, Jack, age 8, Abigail, age 4, and Emily, age 2.
Karen will be especially remembered for the warmth of her spirit, her overwhelming kindness, her radiant beauty, her generosity, her wit, her endless encouragement, the way she welcomed people into her life, her devotion to James, and the fulfillment she found as mother to Jamie, Jack, Abigail and Emily.
Additional survivors include her husband LTC James A. Dickerson II of San Antonio, Texas; her parents Thomas and Judith Rundle of Severn, Maryland; her sister Susan Rundle Gustafson (Matthew) of Severn, Maryland; her brother Thomas Rundle Jr. (Peggy) of Cordova, Maryland; her grandmother Margaret Rundle of Severna Park, Maryland; nieces Elizabeth and Kelly Gustafson; nephews Michael and Robert Gustafson and Andrew and Anthony Rundle.
A funeral mass will be held at 2 pm, Friday, January 9, 2015 at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, 223 E. Summit Avenue, San Antonio, Texas. Relatives and friends are welcome at the service and reception to follow at the Dickerson home, 526 Grandview Place, San Antonio, Texas from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions are welcome and can be made either to the Dickerson Children Memorial Fund, 526 Grandview Place, San Antonio, Texas 78209 or the American Cancer Society.
Thank you to the staff and volunteers at Brooke Army Medical Center, the Cancer Therapy and Research Centers, and Amedisys Hospice for their help and support.
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