Karen “Fae” (Upshaw) Krider, daughter of the late Morton Henry and Mabel Mae (Shannon) Upshaw, was born October 4, 1946, in Denlow, Missouri. She passed away on October 6, 2024, surrounded by family at Cox Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. She was 78 years and 2 days of age.
Fae married Lonnie Krider on October 12, 1968, in Champion, Missouri. Five children were born into this union. They made their home on a farm in Douglas County, where Fae worked to raise her children and tend to the dairy farm. Dairy farming was hard work but she embraced the lifestyle and handled all the challenges of family and farming.
Fae had a zest for life that went beyond her work on the farm. She truly enjoyed traveling down back roads looking for deer. She had a love for Bluegrass music and enjoyed going to the festivals at Silver Dollar City. She found joy in the simple pleasures of life. Fae liked hunting morel mushrooms in the spring and raking hay in the summer. She also enjoyed collecting things, especially salt shakers and CorningWare dishes. She would have others in mind when she would pick up items and be on the lookout for the perfect gift. Fae was selfless, always putting others first.
Fae had a love for her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. She attended the Champion Church of Christ. She truly cherished her time with family and friends more than anything else. She looked forward to school and family reunions as they were an important time for her. She enjoyed the relationship she had with all of those she knew and loved.
Besides her parents, Fae was preceded in death by her husband, Lonnie Krider; two brothers, Russell Upshaw and Wayne Upshaw; three sisters-in-law, Susie Upshaw, Sue Upshaw, and Sharon Upshaw.
Fae is survived by her children, Linda Watts, and her husband, Marty, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Teahna Oglesby, and her husband, Brian, of Perry, Missouri, Leslee Krider and his wife, Breauna, of Republic, Missouri, Tanna Wiseman, and her husband, Roger, of Marshfield, Missouri, and Staci Cline, and her husband, Dustin, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee; her twin sister, Linda “Kaye” Johnston and her husband, Richard, of Licking, Missouri; two brothers, Vernon Upshaw and his wife, Elgin, of Mountain Grove, Missouri, and Robert Upshaw of Vanzant, Missouri; eleven grandchildren, Dakota and his wife, Emily, Dylan Watts and his wife, Lauren, Eli, Emerson, and Esther Oglesby, Taegan and Luxe Krider, Foster and Kalyssa Wiseman, and Drayson and Carson Cline; two great-grandchildren, Waylon and Decker Watts, as well as one on the way; and many other family and friends who will miss her very much.
