June Beverly Peterson was born March 16, 1929, and grew up in Bellingham, Washington with four younger brothers. She attended high school at Auburn Academy and then attended Walla Walla College prior to teaching in Monroe, Washington, and Tacoma, Washington. She married Bob Gohl in Monroe in 1950 and taught at the elementary level for many years in between the births of Luana, Daryl and Brian. After a divorce, she moved to Federal Way in 1966 to teach and then to Auburn so her boys could attend Auburn Adventist Academy. She married Elmer Hadland in 1983 and moved to his home in Adna, gaining a teenage stepdaughter — Mickey Acton.
June was a supervisor for House of Lloyd and Christmas Around the World, earning trips to Greece, Brazil, Alaska and Hawaii, with Elmer helping her in the evenings after his construction business was over for the day. After Elmer's death in 1999, June continued to live out in Adna, raising a large garden and being active in the Chehalis SDA Church until the big flood of 2007. She then sold her home and moved to an apartment in Stillwater Estates. In 2017, she moved into the assisted living Colonial Estates, where she lived until it was closed in March of 2024. She moved to Prestige Monticello Park in Longview, Washington, to be closer to her son Daryl in Woodland. She was active in attending church and two Bible studies each week.
Over the years, June especially enjoyed her children: Luana; Daryl and wife, Ruthie; Brian and wife, Lin; Mickey and husband, Larren; 14 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren. She also loved birds and flowers and usually had a fresh bouquet in her house year-round. She continued to walk about one-quarter mile each day, including the day she slipped and fell in her apartment. She passed away, due to complications from the fall, peacefully in her sleep at age 96 at PeaceHealth Hospice House on April 21, 2025. She will be greatly missed.
Funeral: There will be a Celebration of Life service at the Centralia Seventh-day Adventist Church Fellowship Hall on Aug. 16, 2025, at 3 p.m.
