On the afternoon of March 12, 2025, Karen "Kay-Kay" Ruth Coles, 74, of Brooklyn, NY, beloved mother, sadly passed away from advanced heart and renal disease caused by amyloidosis, while surrounded by family, leaving a void that cannot be filled.

She was born in Brooklyn on November 25, 1950 to Dudley Swan Coles and Lorraine Coles (née Russell) and grew up with two loving sisters Patricia "Pat" and Denise "Neecee", as well as many caring aunts, uncles and cousins.  Karen attended Erasmus High School before becoming a principal office assistant and bailiff in the State of New York Unified Court System, and then eventually became a homemaker to her children. She had a passion for learning and playing the violin and piano, listening to music, reading novels and crafting beautiful needlepoint artwork for her loved ones.

Karen was preceded in death by her mother and father Lorraine and Dudley Coles, her two sisters Patricia McKnight (née Coles) and Denise Coles, and her two nephews Edward Brownbear and Darrell McKnight.

Karen is survived by her three children, Christopher Williams, Adam Coles and Kara (Ronald) Gutierrez (née Coles), her two granddaughters, Jasmine and Evangeline Gutierrez, her nephew, James McKnight, her great nephews Jarell Ball and Michael McKnight, her great niece Ameonah Brownbear and many loving aunts, uncles, cousins and friends who will never forget the love and joy she brought to their lives.