June L. Sergeant

June L. Sergeant, 88, of Kearney died Sunday, December 25, 2011 at her home in Kearney. Funeral services will be Friday, January 6, 2012 are 2:00 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church with Reverend Stephen Price Gibson officiating. Burial will be at a later time. There will be no visitation. Memorials are planned to the First Presbyterian Church, the Habitat of Humanity, and Doctors without Borders. A message of condolence, tribute or memory can be left at www.hlmkfuneral.com . Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral and Cremation Services of Kearney are in charge of arrangements. June Louise Allphin was born on June 27, 1923 in Hugoton, KS as the fifth child of nine to William and Stella Allphin. She grew up in Gering, Nebraska and graduated from Gering High School in May of 1941. She was an active youth in the Scottsbluff Church of God and attended a youth convention in Kearney, Nebraska where she met Dean Sergeant who had volunteered in the Air Corps in August of 1940. A steady flow of love letters ensued for over a year which lead to their marriage in Coleman, Texas on September 17, 1942. June traveled and lived with Dean in many Air Corps bases until he was in training in Baltimore, MD as an officer in the counter Intelligence corps Service and she was employed as a punch card operator with the Social security administration. June continued her work in Baltimore for 9 months while Dean was assigned to Japan and Korea. In 1946 she joined him in Seoul, Korea and there she worked for the Civil Intelligence Service the year and a half they were in Korea. June took college classes during the war at Thomas Edison College in Ft. Myers, Florida and later at Kearney State College in Kearney, Nebraska. While Dean was a student at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, June was a secretary in a Seminary office. In May of 1953 she became a commissioned missionary with her husband in 1954 and began 10 years as a missionary in northern India. When the Sergent’s returned to the U.S.A. in 1964 they settled in Kearney where Dean taught in the Educational Psychology Department at Kearney State College. June and Dean have 3 daughters. Sherry who was born in Omaha 5 years before they left for India and Sandy and Cindy who were both born in India. Presently Sherry and Steve Cox live in Lawton, Oklahoma, sandy Ayers lives in Kearney and Cindy and Clark Olson are in Loveland, CO. June has 7 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren. June served as a leader in the campfire girls and was a faithful member of the choir at the First Presbyterian Church in Kearney. She also served as an elder and was on a variety of committees in the church. She was a gracious hostess for many foreign students attending the College during the years Dean was a professor and she was active in the Faculty Wives group and other foreign student activities. June worked in the Dry Cleaning business, at a doctor’s office as a home care giver and she also sold Avon. She was an avid flower gardener, enjoyed walking and playing tennis and was very creative and artistic. She was very family oriented and close to her siblings, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. June is preceded in death by her father, mother, 3 brothers and 3 sisters, 2 infant sons and her husband Dean. She is survived by her 3 daughters and their families, grandchildren, great grandchildren, 2 sisters and several cousins, nieces and nephews. PDF Printable Version

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June L. Sergeant

June 27, 1923 - December 25, 2011