Kern County Obituaries

June Sandberg

Submitted by Don Stowell; 13 Feb 2008

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Area pioneer June Sandberg services
MOJAVE — Graveside services were held at Mojave Cemetery July 17 for Mojave and Rosamond 
area pioneer June Sandberg who passed away July 10 in Fallon, Nevada.
June Sandberg was born to parents Ed and Ethel Brown November 22, 1917 in East Los Angeles 
when that area was rural. The family moved to the high desert in the 1930'g where her parents ran 
cattle in Mint Canyon and the Lovejoy Buttes in the eastern Antelope Valley. She often spoke of the 
good times and hard work the family enjoyed while driving their cattle from Mint Canyon to the 
Buttes.
Later, her parents established a pack station in the Mammoth area of Inyo and Mono 
counties, operating it in the summers and wintering in Bishop.
June attended Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, riding a bus with Ising-glass windows. 
She met her husband, Lawrence Duntley, son of pioneer Rawley Duntley, when he and her father 
were branding cattle^ The couple lived on a small ranch in Oak Creek Canyon above the intersection 
of Oak Creek Road and Tehachapi-Willow Springs Road, moving later to a ranch west of Rosamond 
and then to her parents' ranch about five miles due east of Actis Gardens, now part of Edwards Air 
Force Base.
June worked for Nick Reynolds' accounting service in Mojave and then joined the Mojave Unified 
School District where she worked in the office until retiring in 1973,
During her many years in southeast Kern June was active in civic and community activities, 
serving on the Southern Kern Unified School District (Rosamond) school board, directing youth 
activities at the Mojave Community Congregational Church, and with her husband Mojave High 
School teacher Sandy Sandberg, active in the Mojave honorary mayor contest to raise money for 
summer recreation. She was also active in Eastern Star in Mojave and Fallon, where she moved in 
1974, and was a member of the Fallon Soroptimist Club and president of the Churchill County, 
Nevada Republican Womens' Club.
Following her retirement June became a lay reader and later a licensed lay preacher in the 
Fallon Episcopal Church, She was an avid student of local history and loved "boondocking" and 
visiting ghost towns, skiing, and traveling in Europe and Asia with son Ron and daughter-in-law 
Glynnda.	»
A. Eucharistic memorial service was conducted Friday at Holy Trinity Church in Fallon followed by 
the interment services conducted by Grant Faye in Mojave.
In addition to son Ron and his family, June Sandberg is survived by daughter Judy Stigers of 
Sparks, Nevada, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.