Karen Jessup

Karen Alice (Tenneson) Jessup (age 74) was born December 22, 1941, in Burlington, Wash. to William and Alice (Smith) Tenneson. Early on February 12, 2016, heaven gained another beautiful angel when she lost her long-standing battle with multiple myeloma cancer.

She attended Bulington Edison High School and Western Washington College, graduating in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in teaching with an emphasis on home economics. She started a teaching career in Coulee City in 1965, teaching home ec and biology. She also was the first girls' basketball coach, and the team went undefeated in her two...