Emma June Martin passed away at home on May 22, 2021, after ninety-five remarkable years, surrounded by people who loved her.   The granddaughter of an original Harvey girl, June began life in the farmhouse her father had built.  After attending a one-room schoolhouse with her sister and frequent co-conspirator Pauline and after graduating from Winfield High School, June enrolled in Northwestern State College in Alva, Oklahoma, where after only three years she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry.  June was a trailblazer, a woman of science in an era with few women scientists.    After completing a one-year internship in medical technology at the University of Oklahoma Hospital in Oklahoma City, June returned home to Winfield and started her career in the lab at Snyder Clinic and eventually became manager.  Several years later she was reintroduced to Victor Hugo Martin, Jr., a Battle of the Bulge veteran who was in the class ahead of her at Winfield High.  Wearing a dress her mother had sewn for her, June married Vic at the Tisdale Methodist Church in 1955, where her family had been longtime members.  She stopped working to raise her children but returned to work after the children were older. She managed the blood bank at William Newton Memorial Hospital and was one of the best phlebotomist the hospital ever had.

June loved the arts and made sure her children and grandchildren loved them, too.  She loved flowers, especially pansies, and did beautiful container plantings in her yard.   She was fascinated by wild butterflies and insects and was an expert butterfly-net wielder during many bug hunts with her children.   She was a proud and at times pushy 4H mom.   She loved a good adventure and went on many with her husband, her sister, and her daughter Julianne and her friends.   She was an excellent cook, and baked many pies and cakes for family and friends.  Her fondness for Jello salads was renowned and willingness to put unlikely ingredients in them earned them the name tortured Jello salad.      For many years she and Vic hosted breakfast for friends and family who came to town for the bluegrass festival and introduced many of them to biscuits and gravy.  June loved a good story and was a great storyteller with a wry sense of humor.   She passed onto her children her love of reading, though not her love of romance novels.   She was generous, not in a fundraising kind of way, but by reaching out individually to people in need.  Whether born into it or not, June made you a part of her family.  Above all, June loved people.  To say June was a "people person" is an understatement.   June never met a stranger.  June especially loved her family.  She loved being a Martin, a Miller, and one of the twenty Coulter cousins.  She was proud of her husband, her children, and their many accomplishments.   She loved being "Mau" to her grandsons and Grandma June to her granddaughters.   She loved the large family of friends she had amassed in her long and special life.

June has been met in heaven by her husband Victor Hugo Martin, Jr., her parents Reuben Hagar Miller and Mabel Coulter Miller, her sister Pauline Miller, her brother Samuel Lewis Miller, and many adored cousins.   She is survived by her children Emmalee Conover and her husband Michael of Winfield, Victor Hugo Martin III and his wife Debra of Oklahoma City, Julianne Martin and her husband Steven Williams of Wichita, and Christopher Rogers of Winfield, and her grandsons Christopher, Cole, and Cameron Conover of Winfield, her granddaughter Alexandra Martin of Oklahoma City, and her granddaughter Victoria Cundiff and her husband Jeremy,  and great-granddaughter Sophie Cundiff of Germany, her nieces and nephew and countless others to whom she was a beloved second mom.    Her family members and friends around the globe are heartbroken to have lost June but feel blessed to have had this truly extraordinary woman in their lives for so long.  Her children would like to thank Donna Brankel and Dawn Andes for their loving care.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 A.M., Friday, May 28, 2021 at Miles Funeral Service in Winfield.  Interment will follow at Highland Cemetery.

Memorials have been established in June's name for Winfield Arts and Humanities Council and for Winfield Medical Loan Closet.  Contributions may be made through the funeral home.

June's funeral service will be available live on Friday at the following link: