Karen Ross Epp

Karen Ross Epp holds a Bachelors degree from Bethel College

In North Newton, Kansas and a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction

from Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. Karen retired from

teaching at the middle school level in 2004.

Karen was born and raised in the rolling hills and farm country

of southeastern Iowa, near Mount Pleasant, until she left for college and

marriage. Her love of family and history prompted Karen to preserve and

honor not only her brother’s memory, but all men who served so bravely

With him and have a story to tell.

Since the publication of "With Love Stan", Karen and her family have had the privilege and honor of meeting the men she interviewed for the book, in person. After 40 years these men shared the memories of her brother and their tour of duty in Vietnam in 1969.

To learn more about her journey to remember her brother, visit her web site at, www.karenrossepp.com. She is currently working on a historical fiction novel which she hopes to get into publication later this year.

Karen lives with her husband, Regionalism Artist, Phil Epp, in rural Kansas at the edge of the Flint Hills.