June Carol Martin, 93 of Scottsbluff, left her earthly body & joined her Lord & Savior in heaven on December 15, 2022 at RWMC surrounded by her family.
A Celebration of Life will be held on Friday, May 5, 2022 at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Scottsbluff. Inurnment to follow immediately after the service at Fairview Cemetery in Scottsbluff.
June Carol was born on December 8, 1929 in Adair County, Missouri to William Audrey and Mary Eller Miley Young. She and her mother moved to Kirksville, Missouri to live with her grandparents when she was just a few months old. Her mother divorced & when June was 5 years old, her mother remarried Floyd Adams, who became June’s beloved Dad.
She attended Benton grade school & graduated from Kirksville Senior High in 1947. During her high school years she was the head Drum Majorette and President of the Chin Lan & Nu Phi Mu Sororities.
At age 13, she began working at Gregory shoe store & worked for two years before she went to work at Anderson Jewelry where she worked part-time until she graduated from college.
She attended Northeast Missouri Teachers College, now Truman University where she earned her BS Degree in Business Education & Business Administration. During college, she rec’d many honors & held many memberships including Phi Kappa Sigma, Pi Omega Pi business fraternity, Women’s Athletic Association, President Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority, President of Cardinal Key, Secretary Student Council, Outstanding Senior Award of ASA, two years of Who’s Who in Colleges & Universities and head Drum Majorette. She taught baton & drum majoring to music majors & baton students.
On August 12, 1948, she married Herschel A. Martin, Jr. in Kirksville, Missouri. To this union, 3 children were born, Jerald Lee, Sheryl Elane & Joni Kay. Herschel & June celebrated 63 years of marriage before his passing in June 2012.
Following college graduation, during the Korean War, she taught Air Force clerk typists and various adult night classes. She also had a baton & dance studio for 7 years. She was active in ASA alumna, Jaycee Wives and taught Sunday School classes.
In 1956, her husband was transferred by the JC Penney Company to Quincy, Illinois. There she worked as a substitute teacher at the Jr. & Sr. High schools and Director of Children’s Christian education at the First Baptist Church.
In 1960, the family moved to Madison, Wisconsin where she volunteered at Central Colony for mentally handicapped children and held church offices. In 1963, they moved to Redwood Falls, Minnesota where she was on the Civic Music & Little Theater Boards and was a deaconess & Sunday School teacher.
In 1967, the family moved to Streator, Illinois where she served on the PTA board, Girl Scout Council, was a Brownie Scout Leader, member of the Women’s Federated Club and Sunday School classes.
The final Penney’s transfer took the family to Scottsbluff, Nebraska in 1974. June was a treasurer of the eleven counties of Western Nebraska for the March of Dimes and taught Sunday School. Following a bout with cancer she became an Avon Representative to forget about her own problems and she enjoyed the many friends that she made along the way so much that this became a ten year career that she excelled at and she was in the President’s Club for the majority of her tenure.
She & her husband retired in 1986, and they enjoyed several years of RV travel over the United States & Canada before settling in Las Vegas, Nevada part-time and then Las Vegas became their full-time home in 1996. In 2004, they returned to Scottsbluff to be closer to family.
June loved to travel and always said she felt so privileged to be a smalltown girl who got to travel and visit several countries and meet the people. She especially enjoyed the many cruises that they took, always returning to say how fortunate they were to live in the United States.
Her greatest joy was time spent with her family & friends. She loved to entertain and looked forward to meeting the next new friend. June never met a stranger and would start a conversation with anybody that she met along her journeys.
June was a member of the First Baptist Church, Scottsbluff.
She is survived by her children, Jerry (Scottsbluff), Sheri & Norbert Nau (Gering), Joni & Stan Perlinger (Scottsbluff), grandchildren Casey Nau (Gering), Brandon Nau & Jayne Wilson (Skidmore, Texas), Ashley Nau & Alex Groskopf (Gering), Josh & Nicole Perlinger (Turin, Iowa), Zach Perlinger & Presley Christiansen (Scottsbluff), Mackenzie Perlinger (Gering); great grandchildren Anna, Aidyn & Axton Nau (Gering), Jace, Tate & Hazen Perlinger (Turin, Iowa).
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, parent-in-laws and grandparents.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in June’s name to the First Baptist Church or the Panhandle Humane Society.