OBITUARIES.

Byline: The Register-Guard

Karen Geary

SPRINGFIELD - A memorial service will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 20, at Springfield Memorial Gardens & Funeral Home for Karen Patricia Geary of Springfield, who died Dec. 15 of cancer at age 54. Inurnment will be at Springfield Memorial Gardens following the service.

She was born Aug. 1, 1952, in Boston to Paul and Mary Doherty Geary. She married Jim Overton on July 14, 1984, in Foxborough, Mass.

Geary worked for the forest service and the Bureau of Land Management for 30 years.

Survivors include her husband; her mother, Mary Ann Geary of Norton, Mass.; three brothers, Paul Geary Jr. of Millis, Mass., Stephen Geary of Braintree, Mass., and Bill Geary of Cumberland, R.I.; and two sisters, MaryBeth Geary of North Attleborough, Mass., and Anne Geary of Plainville, Mass.

Remembrances to the SMART reading program or Meals On Wheels.

Eugene Lazowski

Eugene Swavek Lazowski of Eugene died Dec. 16 of age-related causes at age 92. No local service is planned.

He was born Dec. 23, 1913, in Poland to Kazimierz and Zofia Lazowski.

Lazowski, a physician, was a former chief of staff of Chicago Children's Hospital School. He worked with the Polish Resistance during World War II.

Survivors include a daughter, Alexandra Gerrard of Eugene; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. His wife, Maria Lazowski, died previously.

A service will be held later in Chicago. Arrangements by Andreason's Cremation & Burial Service in Springfield.

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