June L. Krebs

Funeral Services: 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 7, 2012, United Church of Christ, Friend, with Pastors Tim, Ginny Adams officiating. Interment is in Andrews Cemetery, Friend. Visitation is Tuesday, 1-9:00 p.m. at Lauber-Moore Funeral Home, and 1 hour prior to services at church. Memorials are directed to the church.

In Loving Memory Of
June L. Krebs

June Lucile Krebs, was born, June 26, 1921, on the family farm east of Friend, the first of three children born to John and Ella (Gallup) Krebs and died Sunday, March 4, 2012, at the Friend Manor in Friend, Nebraska at the age of 90 years 6 months and 19 days. As a young girl, she attended rural school district #35 and graduated with the class of 1938 from Friend High School. June attended Doane College from 1939-1940 and the University of Nebraska from 1940-1943, graduating with a degree in Home Economics. Later she earned a Master's Degree in Family Economics from Kansas State University in 1961.

June taught Home Economics classes at various junior and senior high schools for 17 years before joining the Home Economics faculty at Fort Hays University in Hays, Kansas in 1962. She retired in 1981 after 19 years as the Home Economics Professor and returned to make her retirement home in Friend.

June was a member of the United Church of Christ, was active in the UCC Women's Fellowship, and was a member of the PEO Chapter Q, and the OES Rose Standish Chapter #265, all of Friend. In her spare time, June enjoyed sewing and needle point, and reading, especially magazines and newspapers.

She is survived by her niece and nephews and their spouses, James Smith, Richard and Shelley Smith, Stephen and Becky Smith, and Allan Smith, all of Friend, Ann and Rodney Middagh, Lincoln; ten great-nieces and nephews and seven great-great nieces and nephews.

June was preceded in death by her parents, her sister, Mary Smith and an infant brother, Robert.