Karen Louise Fowler

I had no idea that Karen passed. I am shocked and sadden to hear. We met at the first faculty and staff meeting at the Hasan School of Business. I loved her strength and confidence. She told it like it was. I last spoke to her mid 2022. I wrote her a Christmas card only to get a letter from her estate.

Karen I will truly miss you and hope you are at peace.

Janet Mastroantonio

I knew Karen when she was a graduate student at the University of Nebraska. She was a very good student and a key contributor at the Friday Afternoon Club (FAC), a group of faculty and graduate students who would meet at a local pub to review the week’s happenings around the campus, discuss research projects, and enjoy each other’s company. We all became life-long friends and have enjoyed reunions over the years at professional meetings of the Western Academy of Management and Western Decision Sciences Institute. She will be happily remembered, and sadly missed.

Dr. Karen Fowler was a supportive colleague who invited many faculty to research with her. She was a dedicated teacher, and a kind soul who lived her life to the fullest. She was proud to be a Thunderwolf and to be able to teach at her undergraduate Alma Mater. She was visibly happy to welcome new graduates at the Alumni tent immediately after graduations. In our last conversation, she expressed how much she was looking forward to retirement, and she was seeking communities where she could regularly go salsa dancing. We will miss her zest for life and quick sense of humor. Rest in peace, friend.

I am fortunate to have been a prior student of Dr. Fowler’s at CSU-Pueblo in Fall 2021 of which I very much enjoyed her class, especially her interesting lectures, but most of all her outlook on life. She was a wonderful person who deeply cared about others. She will be missed.

Karen and I were friends since we met as new grad students at the University of Nebraska. Then we continued our friendship ever since, though we were half a continent apart! She was always fun when we met at various professional meetings of the Western Academy of Management or Western Decision Sciences Institute. She would always talk about her students, her dogs, boyfriends and salsa dancing. And her parents—so dedicated, as an only child, to their welfare! She will be missed by many, many of us.❤️

Karen and I were very close friends for so many years. When she moved back to Pueblo to take care of her aging parents we stayed in touch. She always said we had been best friends “since kindergarten,” and I did not have the heart to remind her that we met in fourth grade! We stayed in touch over the years by phone and email, and I was so glad that she attended our 50th East High School reunion. I am in shock, and will grieve her passing for a long time to come. Let people in your life know what they mean to you, it is some small comfort that we never ended a message to each other without the words “I love you.”