June Carlson

June Barbara Young Carlson, 86, of Medicine Lake died March 30, 2024, in Missoula.

She was born July 27, 1937, in Williston, N.D., to Robert and Barbara Young of Froid. She graduated from Froid High School and attended business school in Minnesota the following fall.

She met Lloyd Carlson at her grandparents’ house. He was there drilling a water well. They married March 8, 1957, at the Union Congregational Church. They were the first couple married in the new church. They built a house on Main Street in Medicine Lake and raised their family there.

She was a stay-at-home housewife raising four children. She did the business books for their water well business as well as her Thursday night bowling league. She was a member of the Medicine Lake Congregational Church Ladies Aid and served as a member of the Medicine Lake Music Mothers. She chaired many R.E.C. annual meeting dinners as well as Music Mother dinners. She chaperoned multiple music trips to state festivals.

In 1986, they began spending their winters in Yuma, Ariz. They wintered in Yuma and summered in Medicine Lake until Lloyd could no longer make the trips back and forth. During the winters spent in Yuma, she volunteered at the Yuma Visitor Center.

She enjoyed reading Harlequin romance books and, later in life, she enjoyed watching the Hallmark channel or The Voice.

She is survived by daughter, Connie Tetrault of Plentywood, Carol Lubbers of Billings and Karen Sautter of Missoula; son, Curtis Carlson of Branson, Mo.; and three sisters, Lucille Waters of Bismarck, N.D., Edna Mc-Nealey of Yuma, Ariz., and Vivian Ostby of Williston, N.D. She is also survived by nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Service will be at Fulkerson Funeral Home Chapel in Plentywood on Saturday, April 13, at 10 a.m. Burial will follow at the Medicine Lake Cemetery.