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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271976
Title: June F. Huff
Date: 11/27/1938-2/20/2021
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Inscription/Marks: 11/27/1938
Summary: June Fay Huff, 82, Williston, ND, entered her forever home in Heaven on February 20, 2021. Cremation has taken place. No services are planned at this time. June was born November 27, 1938, at the family farm south of White Earth, ND, to the late Leonard George Smith and Alida Melinda (Hauskey) Smith.  They moved to the Williston area when she was just one year old, and lived on the family farm northeast of Williston.  The youngest of three girls, she attended Palmer School in Pherrin Township until the sixth grade when they moved into the town Williston.  She graduated from Williston High School with the Class of 1956. She met Harvey Huff in 1964 and during their marriage they lived in North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Alaska, settling back in Williston in 1971 where they lived until her death.  Her greatest love and joy in her life were her children, grandchildren, and family.  Although they all moved into their own lives and separate states, they never lost the closeness they had growing up, remaining “a family of friends.” Throughout her life and career, June relished in the freedom and fun she had in trying something new.   She was a beloved Wife, Mother of four, Grandmother of five, Great-Grandmother of nine, Great-Great-Grandmother to one,  an Auntie, a mentor, and a friend to many.   Through the decades of her work and volunteer service serving the Williston community and Mooseheart Charities, she inspired and touched countless lives. She always had a helping hand, a story, a recipe or cooking shortcut, a joke, a hearty laugh, and a hug for nearly everyone. She is best known to the locals in Williston for her home-style cooking! She owned Looney June’s Husky House Café for many years, and then began at the Castle Café in Service Drug in 1984, working up to manager before she retired in 2004. Daily specials, fresh homemade Soup-of-the-Day, fresh pies and cookies, and oh my, those hot fresh Caramel Rolls every morning!    After she retired from Service Drug in 2004, she continued to work part-time for another twelve years as Gaming Auditor and volunteered (often several evenings a week) in the kitchen, cooking for special weddings, holiday dinners, birthday parties, and special weekend dinners, making sure the gravy was always done just right, and showing the other Moose volunteers more of her kitchen wizardry.  She shared her cooking secrets with hundreds and hundreds of people. Her cooking was amazing, and her children will pass along many of those “Mom’s Café” kitchen tricks to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.   She was incredibly committed to the Moose Lodge and Mooseheart Charities, and she served in several different elected officer positions for the Women of the Moose throughout the years, attending conventions across the United States and giving herself fully to helping others.  June is survived by her husband, Harvey Huff; daughter, DebraLee (Harmon) Koblos and her husband Steve; son, Kevin Renville and his wife Jennifer; daughter,r Darla (Long) Scheuerman and her husband Jack; son, Leon Huff and his wife Jenny; grandchildren, Jacob (and Melissa)  Koblos, Jessica (and Christian) Lack, Korryn Kerns (and Tyler Bay); great-grandchildren, Patrick Newby, Daniel Newby, Ramey Albrethsen, Sophia Lack, Finnley Lack, Eris Wert, and Dane Wert; great-great- granddaughter, Carmen Newby; and many nieces, nephews, cousins, and their families. She was preceded in death by her mother and father, Leonard and Alida Smith; sisters, Ada Larson and Rose Ortloff; granddaughter, Carmen Bisbee; and grandson, Joshua Kerns.
Red ID: FND_I_79471 Image ID: 546563 Image Notes: FND001 271976

Collection: FND001 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Date: -

Summary: The North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program is sponsored by the North Dakota Funeral Directors Association. The life stories of deceased North Dakotans are featured in an archvied collection. Current partners in the project are Eastgate Funeral & Cremation Services, Bismarck Evans Funeral Homes, Carrington and New Rockford Everson-Coughlin Funeral Home, Williston Fulkerson Funeral Home, Tioga Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City Fulkerson Stevenson Funeral Home, Williston Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck Springan Stevenson Funeral Home, Stanley Stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson These funeral homes provide recent obituaries to the Foundation, where staff and volunteers format, edit and archive each memorial. The memorials are posted, and copies are sent to the family for their input and approval. The listing currently features more than 13,000 memorials, and is constantly updated as new memorials and histories are received.

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