KARLSON ADVANCE – Dr. Karl Henrik Karlson, Jr., 76, died Friday, May 27, 2022, of complications from several strokes. He was born May 26, 1946, in Plainfield, NJ, to the late Karl Henrik and Jean Hall Dundon Karlson. Karl's early education started at a school in Stokholm, Sweden and five years in a school in Copenhagen, Denmark. He graduated from Scarsdale High School in New York, in 1964, and after spending his Junior year in Costa Rica, graduated Cum Laude from Colgate University in 1968. Karl graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine in 1972, and did his residency in pediatrics on the Tulane Service at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. After two years of a pediatric pulmonology fellowship at Tulane under the mentorship of Dr. William Waring, he did a year of pediatric intensive care fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital under the mentorship of Dr. Daniel Shannon. Later, he was the Director of the PICU at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Dr. Karlson taught pulmonology at Tulane, at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA, at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at Children's Hospital in Little Rock, at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA, and finally was a Professor of Pediatrics at Wake Forest Medical School in Winston-Salem before retirement as Professor Emeritus. At Norfolk and Winston-Salem, he also taught and specialized in pediatric sleep medicine. While he published many articles based on his research and wrote articles and chapters about pediatric pulmonology, some of it internationally recognized, his real love was for teaching and patient care. The editors of The Best Doctors in America recognized him every year from that series' inception in the early 1990's until his retirement as one of the best doctors in his field in Arkansas, then in Virginia, and then in North Carolina. Many of his patients, students, and colleagues have had equally high praise for him. He was a lifelong Anglican and served on the vestry of St. Luke's Anglican Catholic Church in Augusta, GA, and the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Norfolk, VA. His final affiliation, at the end of his life, was with the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd in Bermuda Run. Dr. Karlson's interests were broad. He loved trains from a young age, and loved working on his model railroad for most of his life. He was a member of the Southbound Model Railroaders' Club, and shared his love of trains with his own children and with children in the hospital, especially at Children's Hospital in Little Rock and Brenner Children's Hospital in Winston-Salem where he helped contribute to the hospital model railroad set-ups that the pediatric patients could enjoy. Dr. Karlson loved fly fishing, baseball, bird watching, New Orleans cooking and culture, had an amateur radio license, and enjoyed Russian literature, and the writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, among many others, as well as books about history and of course about railroads. Until he became ill this year, he also spent many hours with his family in the garden growing vegetables – especially tomatoes and green beans. Music was another of his loves, from ABBA to Mardi Gras music to Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Bach with bagpipe music mixed in. Most of all, he loved his family and tried to serve his Lord. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Keith Karlson, in 2016. Survivors include his love of his life, his wife whom he married in New Orleans in 1971, Marilyn Katherine Naufftus Karlson; son, Karl William Karlson (Billy); daughter, Mary Katherine Karlson Bratton; son-in-law, Ian Bratton; and brother-in-law, Bill Naufftus. A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m., Thursday, June 2, at Christ Church, Anglican, 2252 Queen Street, Winston, Salem. The family invites those who cared about Dr. Karlson to come by Lambert Funeral Home, from 6:30 – 8: 00 p.m., Wednesday, June 1, to pay their respects. In lieu of flowers, please consider memorials to Samaritan's Purse, P.O. Box 3000, Boone, NC 28607; or Mercy Ships, P.O. Box 1930, Garden Valley, TX 75771. Online condolences: www.lambertfuneralhomenc.com