June Charmeen (Wiley) RICHARDSON

RICHARDSON, DAVIS, WILEY, CASEY, HECKATHORN, HARRIS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:07:00

March 20, 1925 --- September 9, 2021

June Charmeen Richardson, the daughter of Morris and Grace (Davis) Wiley, was born on March 20, 1925 in Laurens. She was baptized at First Christian Church in Laurens. June attended kindergarten in Fort Dodge. She finished the rest of her early education in Laurens and graduated in 1942.

On April 11, 1943, June married the love of her life, Harold Richardson in South Sioux City. Following their marriage, they farmed north of Laurens for five years and then moved west of Pocahontas, where they lived for 20 years. They also farmed in Humboldt, Goldfield, Renwick, south of Spencer and Storm Lake, and then returning to Spencer when they retired. After the death of her husband Harold in 1997, she remained in Spencer.

June worked may places after her children were in school. There were retail stores, she was a certified nurse aide and later she worked at Northwest Aging Assoc., where she received many awards including a trip to New York City and another to Washington, D.C. She was a member of the Church of Christ, the Eastern Star and in the early years there were lots of neighborhood “clubs.” She loved to read, play cribbage and sit at the computer mostly and just being with her friends.

She passed away on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021, at Spencer Hospital at the age of 96.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 15 at Warner Chapel in Spencer. Visitation with the family will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Following the funeral service, there will be an Eastern Star Service at the funeral home. Interment will be in Laurens Cemetery. Arrangements are by Warner Funeral Home in Spencer.

She was preceded in death by her husband Harold; infant twin daughters: Margaret and Marilyn; daughter Marlene Casey; and her two sons: David and Leslie Richardson.

Left to cherish her memory are her sons: Brian of New Palestine, Indiana; Neil of Fonda; and Steven (Gene) of Kansas City, Missouri.; her two daughters: Nancy Heckathorn of Denver, Colorado; and Marjorie Harris of Thornton; 31 grandchildren; 75 great-grandchildren; 21 great-great-grandchildren; son-in-law Don Casey of Arizona; sister-in-law Edna Richardson of Atlantic; other relatives and friends.

Storm Lake Times --- Storm Lake, Iowa
September 14, 2021