Kara Fraze Dearden

Published 3:55 pm Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Kara Fraze Dearden, age 32, of Andalusia, passed away Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at her residence surrounded by her loved ones.

Funeral services were held at Friday, Jan. 24, 2:30 p.m., at Keahey Funeral Home. The family received friends one hour prior to the services. Daniel Rodgers officiated. Interment followed in Stone Lake Gardens.

Serving as pallbearers were Chad Ellisor, Kaden Porter, Jeffery Fraze, Jimmy Pate Jr., J.D. Calhoun, and Jason Pate.

Left to cherish her memory include: her young sons, Jace and Jeffery Dearden; parents, David and Amy Fraze of Texas; brother, Jeffery Fraze of Andalusia; sisters, Jessica Lauderdale and Katie Fraze of Texas; maternal grandmother, Jeanne Smith of Texas; paternal grandfather, Louis Fraze of Indiana; a close friend, BreAnna Pate of Andalusia; and aunt, Laura Anderson, and uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins, all of whom she loved very much.

Kara was a 2010 graduate of Straughn High School.

There is a Go Fund Me established at gofund.me/a5cc9276 to assist the family with funeral expenses.