Karen Williams:
CLASS OF 1988
Van Buren High SchoolClass of 1988
Van buren, AR
Heights Elementary SchoolClass of 1988
Alamogordo, NM
City Heights Elementary SchoolClass of 1988
Van buren, AR
Van Buren Intermediate SchoolClass of 1988
Van buren, AR
Van Buren Junior High SchoolClass of 1988
Van buren, AR
Karen's Story
Life since high school has been a long and winding road. Went from happy to be out of school to 20 years later happy to be back in school.
1988-00: Went to West-Ark Community College. Worked as a part-time bank teller at First America ( remember the old savings & loan banks? ) and as a part-time sales associate for Service Merchandise. I met my 1st husband David October of 1988. We married June 1989. I quit college fall 1989 and went to work full-time as the buyer for Sigler Music Centers.
October 1, 1992 I gave birth to my 1st son Harlan Evan Broyles.
February 1992 I went to work for Unitog Company as a seamstress and the Healthcare Secretary/ OSHA Committee President. I worked there until August 1998.
August 30, 1995 I gave birth to my 2nd son Austin Ryan Broyles.
August 1998 I went to work at Parks Brothers Farms Inc. as Transportation Director and Assistant Accountant. I worked there until December 2000.
December 2000 David and I divorced and I began my job at USA Truck Inc as a Fleet Manager.
2001-present
May 2001 I met Heath Williams.
October 2002 I quit USA...Expand for more
Truck.
January 2, 2003 Heath and I married.
May 2003 I returned full-time to college at UA Fort Smith to get my RN.
March 2005 Heath regained full custody of his adopted son Gary-Ray Allen and daughter Loreanna Rose after not seeing them for years due to his ex-wife disappearing with them in 1997. They were 13 & 11 at that time they came to live with us permanently.
December 2006 I graduated college with my RN and began working with Sparks Health Systems.
August 2008 I quit working to return again fulltime to UA Fort Smith to get my BSN. I will graduate Spring 2010.
I am working towards my MSN & WHNP/CNM ( women's health nurse practitioner & midwife ) & eventually before I die my DNP ( a doctorate degree different from a PhD ).
My children keep me very busy. Gary is 16 and a sophomore at VBHS, Harley is 15 ( soon 16 ) and also a sophomore at VBHS, Loreanna is 15 and a freshman at Butterfield, and Asti is 13 and an 8th grader at Butterfield.
Heath is a 1991 graduate of Heavener High School of course in Heavener OK. He is an engineer for Union Pacific Railroad.
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