June F. Walker

March 22, 2016

June F. Walker, 75, passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 19, 2016, the day before her 76th birthday. She was born on March 20, 1940, in Placerville, CA to Art and Nellie Hansen and grew up in the foot hills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At the tender age of 18, she departed those foothills to seek a new life in the U.S. Navy. After basic training she found herself at NAS Norfolk, VA where she served as a clerk-typist in the Public Works Division. As fate would have it she met a younger sailor in Norfolk and after a whirl wind courtship, she and Michael Walker were married on November 21, 1959. As she would tell people the wedding was done on the cheap. Got married in the base chapel, the cake came from the Navy Galley, the photos were taken by a Navy photographer, developed in a Navy photo lab and the wedding reception was held in the Waves Barracks. But it must have worked, since that marriage lasted for over fifty-six years.

Over the years she was deeply involved with fishing, bowling, square dancing, RV’ing and finally motorcycling, making friends everywhere she went. Memberships included Sea Breezes; Waves Unit 52 of Military Women Across the Nation, The Lady Bugs of the Red Hat Society, Chapter FL1-D of the Gold Wing Road Riders Association, and the Rovin’RV club, FMCA and FCOC.

She was a very patriotic person and justifiably proud of her military service. During those fifty-six years she gave birth to a girl, Rhonda E. Walker Malone; and a boy, Jeffery B. Walker. The family did a great deal of long distance moving as directed by the U.S. Navy from Virginia to California to Hawaii to Georgia to Key West to Guam and to Pensacola.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her daughter, Rhonda Malone; and her brother-in-law, Louis Pledger.

June is survived by her husband, Michael Walker; son, Jeffery (Jeanne) Walker; three grandchildren, Sean Malone, and Rachel and Alex Walker; sister, Shirley Pledger; and brother, Ron Hansen.

She was a wonderful woman who will be sorely missed.

A committal service will be held Monday, March 28, 2016, at Barrancas National Cemetery. Family and friends meet at Faith Chapel Funeral Home South at 10:30 a.m. for procession.

Faith Chapel Funeral Home South is in charge of arrangements.

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