Karen Marie Cobb, 58, of Hot Springs, VA passed away peacefully in her sleep on Oct. 10, 2019, at home with a lifelong friend and her beloved cat, Levon, by her side. She had suffered many years of declining health and is now in peace. She was born in Arlington Hospital in Arlington to Ralph Bonner Cobb and Gloria Kurze Cobb. Her father was the proprietor of Cobb’s Gulf Service Station at 14th and L Streets in Washington, D.C. She joined her older brothers, Gary and Richard, on Oct. 24, 1960. She was educated in Arlington County public schools, attending Tuckahoe Elementary School, Swanson Middle School, and graduated high school from the Alternative HB Woodlawn Program in 1979, where she became fuent in German and was named class valedictorian. She later Karen Marie Cobb attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University in Blacksburg; and the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. She had an inquiring mind and had many interests during her lifetime, including calligraphy, carding and spinning wool, jewelry making, gardening, antiques, American and European history, ecology and genealogy.