Karen Dianne (Hodges) Gazafi, 70, of Callaway, FL, passed away at Seagrass Village Memory Care Unit, Panama City Beach, FL, on Sunday, February 6, 2022. She was born on March 9, 1951, in Headland, AL, to the late Byron and Flowers Hodges. She was a 1969 graduate of Rutherford High School, in Panama City, FL. In November 1969 she married her husband United States Air Force SSgt, William Gazafi of Willingboro, NJ. She accompanied William on his many military assignments and retired from the Electronic Data Systems (EDS) company in 2005 at the birth of her granddaughter.

She is preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Joyce McKeithen and Drenee Douglas, and brother Gary Hodges.

Left to cherish Dianne's memory are her husband William Gazafi of Callaway, FL; her son, Shaun Gazafi of Tucson, AZ; grandchildren, Nathan Dance and Autumn Morgante of Culpeper, VA; brother Byron Wayne Hodges (Claudia) of Pensacola, FL, and sister Linda Carolyn Mummert of Parker, FL., plus numerous nieces and nephews and great nieces and great nephews.