Karen L. Owens

Fieldsboro - Karen L. Owens, age 55, passed away on Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at Capital Health Medical Center in Hopewell. Born in Newton, Karen grew up in the Sussex-Wantage area and moved to Hamilton Square in eighth grade. She graduated from Steinert High School, class of 1985 in Hamilton Square and received her nursing degree in 1991 from Mercer County Community College. She loved her work as an LPN and was employed by Capital Health Medical Center for 25 years before her employment with Village MD in Ewing the past two years. Karen was the 2006 recipient for the Nurse Excellence Award at Capital Health Care Medical Center and also served on the hospital’s stroke awareness committee. She also was a member of the Bordentown Elks Auxiliary. Karen also had her own DJ business with her husband and often ran karaoke. She is survived by her husband, Mark Sniadach; her son, Jonathan Owens and his partner, Nicole Ashley; her mother, Carol Owens and her husband Mike Garrett; her father, Stanley Utter and his wife Janice of Wantage; her brothers, Stew Owens and Bill Owens and his wife Katelyn all of Hamilton Square; her sisters, Connie O’Ruanaidh and her husband Joseph of San Diego, California, Meredith Shortway and her husband Adam of Wantage, Ayla Quaglio and her husband Patrick of Frankford Township; her grandchildren, Jonathan, Jr. and Avalyn; and her nieces and nephews, Brynn, Grace, Reese, Beau, Wyatt, Aubrey, Sam, Dylan, Shannon, and Sierra. Visitation will be held on Sunday, December 11, 2022 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Saul Colonial Home, 3795 Nottingham Way, Hamilton Square, NJ 08690. Friends may also pay their respects to the family on Tuesday, December 13, 2022 from 11 a.m. to 12 noon at the Pinkel Funeral Home, 31 Bank Street (Route 23), Sussex with funeral services to be held at 12 noon at the funeral home. Interment will immediately follow at Clove Cemetery in Wantage. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation in Karen’s memory to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105. Online condolences may be offered to the family at www.pinkelfuneralhome.com

Karen L. Owens

June 13, 1967 - December 6, 2022