Karma Hatch Winward

Karma Hatch Winward was born on July 12, 1938, into a loving family. From her birth, Karma brought love, happiness, and acceptance to everyone around her, but to no one more than her husband of 62 years, Emer, who preceded her in death. Karma passed away peacefully in her bed on December 6, 2025, after which all of her children were able to gather by her side.

Most of her childhood was spent in the bucolic countryside of View in southern Idaho. Karma attended Weber State University. After graduating, she returned to southern Idaho, taking a job as a home economics teacher at Minidoka County High, where she met Emer Winward, the new history teacher. Karma maintained that she needed a big, strong history teacher to open the stubborn windows in her classroom. Karma and Emer were married June 7, 1961, in the Logan Temple.

Karma and Emer are the parents of six children and gave each child the expectation that they would leave home to start their own family with the same commitment and love they themselves modeled, making them proud parents of six couples: Kent and JulieAnn, Karyn and Chris (Allen), Tom and Kim, Matthew and Amber, David and Sarah, Bart and Jennie. From these six couples, Emer and Karma have 22 grandchildren and 11 and 6/9ths great grandchildren. One grandchild, Tyler Allen, preceded her in death.

While Emer completed his master’s degree in education at Utah State, Karma and Emer began their family. Karma stopped teaching home economics and, utilizing all she knew, began her lifelong work of homemaking. Karma was a homemaker. She made a home for her family from the strong foundations of hard work, humor, music, food, kindness, and love. Karma continued to teach everyone the skills and devotion it takes to make a home.

Karma was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, serving in many callings. Hers was a simple and pure faith grounded in love and kindness to others. Karma and Emer went on two missions during their retirement, one to the Washington DC temple, and the other to Cowpens, South Carolina. To honor that faith, the family asks that, in lieu of flowers, please make a donation to a charity of your choice.

Funeral services will be held Monday December 15, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. at the Kaysville 13th Ward, 875 E. 200 N., Kaysville, Utah. Family and friends may visit Sunday December 14 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Lindquist’s Kaysville Mortuary, 400 N. Main St., Kaysville, Utah and Monday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the church prior to the service.

Interment will be held at the Kaysville City Cemetery.

The funeral service will be live-streamed and may be viewed by scrolling to the bottom of Karma’s obituary page at www.lindquistmortuary.com

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