- Date Of Death: May 5, 2022
- State: Idaho
June Delilia (Sherfy) Good passed away peacefully in her home in Nampa, Idaho on April 27, 2022 after a brief illness. She celebrated her 93rd birthday a month earlier.
June was born to Minnie Kessler Sherfy and Kenneth Sherfy on March 23, 1929 in Lebanon, Oregon. In her early childhood, June lived in a house without running water or electricity. She enjoyed milking cows by hand, helping to put up hay, vegetable gardening, and many other outside chores. She also enjoyed learning to cook and sew, and playing in the creek and woods behind the farming land.
She had many fond memories of her growing up years which she wrote for her children in 1998 when recovering from hip surgery. Her children are grateful for her memories.
When June was older her father taught her how to plow with a tractor. He told her it would be safer to stop the tractor at the end of the row before reaching back to trip the plow. After her dad was comfortable that she could do this he left. He warned her “do not get the tractor tangled in the fence and whatever you do, do not fall off the tractor in reaching back to trip the plow. “ June wanted to be like her dad so she tried tripping the plow with the tractor still running. She fell off. She said “ I jumped up faster than I fell down, pulled the lever to stop the tractor and made it. After that I took things more carefully and learned to accomplish a smooth operation,” which was apparent in her later years when she plowed for the Nampa farming business. Her father also taught her to drive a caterpillar to work land and she used it to help a neighbor harvest cucumbers.
June and Doris returned to Nampa the next fall to work.
While James was in Europe for two years June went on her own adventures. She and her friend, Ruth Birky, took the train to the east coast to attend high school at Eastern Mennonite School in Virginia for a year (their formal education having ended with 8th grade in Albany, Oregon). In the second year, June worked at Mennonite Central Committee’s archives at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, and Mennonite Central Committee’s office in Akron, Pennsylvania.
June and James raised 4 children. When her children were in grade school and high school June studied for and passed the GED (high school equivalency test) because she wanted to take English and psychology classes at Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa. She did that and then decided to, as she said in her memories, “get her priorities in line and put my family first, and not have to study so hard.” Her favorite book that she read while attending NNU was Henry David Thoreau’s “At Walden Pond.” She really liked reading about the author’s love of nature.
June loved her family and friends. She took an active interest in whatever her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and other relatives and friends were doing. In her later years, when she could not talk on the phone because of her hearing loss, she enjoyed communicating with family and friends via her tablet. She also wrote many letters and cards to family and friends.
June was preceded in death by her husband, parents, son-in-law Ron Moyer, and a grandson, Gentry Good. She is survived by her sister Doris Gerig and brother-in- law Clarence, her brother Bruce Sherfy and sister-in-law Erma, all of Albany, OR, and a sister-in-law, Betty Good of Murphy, ID; her four children: Kathleen Moyer of Nampa, ID, Ken (Rachel) Good of Joseph, OR, Helen (Phil) Wenger, of Versailles, MO, and Brian Good of Melba, ID. She is also survived by 5 grandchildren: David (Starla) Moyer of Grande Prairie, Alberta; Kami Good of Joseph, OR; Jeremy (Katie Marie) Wenger of Barnett, MO; Zachary (Lindsey) Wenger of Versailles, M0; and Aaron (Katie Lee) Wenger of Florence, MO; by 15 great grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
