June Badiuk, 1921-2008

June Badiuk was born in August 1921 in her grandmother’s upstairs bedroom and passed away peacefully at Cottonwood Hospice in Kelowna, B.C. on the evening of March 7, 2008 at the age of 86 years. Her parents, Allen and Bernice Mercer, farmed in the Clairmont area near Grande Prairie, where she was raised. She graduated, then met and married William Badiuk in 1942. They moved to High Prairie in 1945 where she resided until July 2007. June raised two daughters and volunteered at the town library and museum. Together, with her husband Bill, they ran Bill’s Sporting Goods for 12 years. June was an avid gardener, an enthusiastic painter and an excellent seamstress. She filled her days doing all three passions. She also took several photography classes and excelled at that pastime. After living in High Prairie for 62 years, she moved with her daughter Barbara and son-in-law Pat to Kelowna, B.C. June leaves behind: two daughters, Barbara McCue and husband Pat, of Kelowna; Janis Pratt and husband Tim of Fox Creek; grandaughters Kim Lechelt and partner Randy of Sherwood Park and Terry Park and husband Darryl of Kelowna. She also leaves behind three great-grandchildren including Bradley, Kenneth and Kathleen. She was predeceased by: her husband, Bill, in 1994; and her brother, Burke Mercer, in 1990. Another brother, Grant Mercer, passed away 10 days after June March 17, 2008 in the High Prairie Hospital. June will be greatly missed by all who loved her. No services were held for the late June Badiuk.

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