Kim Kardashian is saying goodbye to her late aunt Karen Houghton.

Kardashian, 43, shared a collection of throwback pictures of Houghton by way of Instagram on Thursday, March 21. “🕊️I really like you a lot auntie Karen🕊,” the fact star captioned her publish.

One snap confirmed a younger Kim and older sister Kourtney Kardashian sitting with Houghton, whereas one other pic confirmed Kim posing together with her aunt in entrance of a Christmas tree. In a single picture, Houghton stood together with her mom, Mary Jo “MJ” Shannon, and Kim’s dad and mom, Kris Jenner and Robert Kardashian.

Houghton, Jenner’s youthful sister, died on Monday, March 18, at age 65. A reason for demise has not been revealed.

“It’s with the heaviest coronary heart and deepest disappointment that I share that my sister Karen handed away yesterday unexpectedly,” Jenner, 68, wrote by way of Instagram on Tuesday, March 19. “My coronary heart aches for my mother MJ and my niece Natalie and I pray that God guides us all by way of this tough time.”

Jenner went on to name her sibling “lovely inside and outside” and the “sweetest, kindest, essentially the most delicate and weak and so so humorous” individual.

“She all the time felt grateful and grateful for her life and treasured her household and mates and particularly her lovely daughter,” the fact mogul continued. “Karen’s passing is a reminder that life is so brief and valuable, and tomorrow is rarely promised. We should inform these we cherish how a lot we love them. I really like you my lovely sister.”

Houghton’s daughter, Natalie Zettel, shared an Instagram tribute to her mother in the future later.

“Expensive Mommy, I can’t consider [you’re] gone,” Zettel wrote on Wednesday, March 20. “This doesn’t even really feel actual. I preserve hoping that I’ll get to hug you or kiss you or hear your voice one final time. You have been my finest buddy, my all the pieces. The most effective mom a daughter might ever ask for and I’m so grateful to have had a mom such as you.”

Zettel’s message was accompanied by a collection of throwback pictures of Houghton, together with one in every of her cradling her daughter simply minutes after she was born.

“You have been essentially the most form, candy, loving, giving, and caring soul,” Zettel continued. “You had the most important coronary heart. And I don’t understand how to go on with out you. All of it occurred so fast & I wasn’t prepared for you to go.”

Karen and Jenner are the one youngsters of Shannon, 89, and her husband, Robert “Bob” Houghton. Bob died in 1975.