Karen Jane Schuler Lybrook, 74, passed away Jan. 24, 2017, at Hospice of Cincinnati in Blue Ash. She lived for the past year at Evergreen Retirement Community in Hartwell.
Mrs. Lybrook was born in Hamilton, Ohio, on May 27, 1942, to Ann Eaton Schuler and John F. Schuler. Karen grew up on the Four Mile Farm of her grandparents, Isabelle and Walter Eaton, in Butler County's St. Clair Township. There, she developed a lifelong love for the beauties of nature.
The Schulers moved to Hamilton County's Delhi Township in the 1950s, and Karen graduated from Seton High School in Cincinnati in 1960. She earned a bachelor's degree in art history from Indiana University in 1964. In academic pursuits and travel, she gravitated toward fine art and architecture, which she studied formally and through numerous cultural tourism trips with her mother and sisters, Sue Ann and Miriam.
She married David Ross Lybrook on May 12, 1966, in Our Lady of Victory Church, Delhi Township.
Survivors include: her husband, David, and their three children: Jon (Bonnie) Lybrook of Boulder, Colorado; Christian Lybrook of Boise, Idaho; and Katie (Dr. Daniel Cornfeld) Lybrook of New Zealand; grandchildren Miriam and Nathan Cornfeld of New Zealand; and a sister, Sue Ann (Mark) Painter of Cincinnati. Additional relatives include nephews Tony Brunsman and Barrett J. Brunsman, nephew Brent Schuler, cousin Thomas Herzog, and their families, all of the greater Cincinnati area, and cousin Mi Herzog and her family of Boston, Massachusetts.
Memorial service and reception: 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at the Mansion at Evergreen Retirement Community, 230 W. Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, OH 45215. Upon entering Evergreen, the Mansion is on your left around a horseshoe drive.
Burial will be private at New St. Joseph Cemetery in Price Hill.
Memorials: Delhi Historical Society, 468 Anderson Ferry Road, Cincinnati OH 45238, or Delhihistoricalsociety.org.