CATSKILL – Karyn Marie (nee Bynum) Maier, 63, passed away on Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at Columbia Memorial Health in Hudson, NY. Her pain and suffering ended as she was carried into the arms of the angels who passed from her life on earth before her. Her beloved husband Andy and her son Aaron were with her until the end.
Karyn was born August 22,1960 at Horton Hospital in Middletown, NY and was raised by her parents, Charles and Winifred Bynum in Goshen. She was a 1978 graduate of Goshen High School. After high school, Karyn pursued higher education at Westchester Community College but it wasn’t until much later that she developed the passion for self educating and became a lifelong learner in many subjects.
She spent her first few years out of school as a musician, sharing her beautiful soprano voice at gigs throughout the northeast. She often found work as a legal secretary in law offices in Kingston and elsewhere in Sullivan County, but over 20 years ago she decided working for someone else would never be her cup of tea so she turned to another of her creative passions, writing. She had two books published; both by Storey Publishing and both subsequently translated into Spanish, Russian, Portuguese and Japanese and sold in dozens of countries.
In 2008 she wrote ” The Naturally Clean Home” now in its third printing, featuring 150 super easy Herbal Formulas for Green Cleaning. The following year, Storey published her book “Happy Baby, Happy You” featuring 500 ways .