KAREN J. ASHTON
Young Women General Board Member

Karen Ashton was raised in Murray, Utah. She attended Brigham Young University and met her husband, Alan C. Ashton, on a blind date. Karen and Alan were married in 1968 in the Salt Lake Temple and are the parents of eleven children.

Sister Ashton worked full-time as a homemaker, and as her children grew, she developed a tremendous love for gardens and children's education. Karen was able to share her love of gardens in a major way when she and her husband founded Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah, a 52-acre garden for families.

Prior to her call to serve on the Young Women general board, Sister Ashton served faithfully as a mission president's wife in the Toronto Canada Mission, on the Primary general board, as ward Relief Society president, ward Young Women president, and on her ward activities committee.