The Clines would move to Newton, KS, in 2000, continuing their community and charitable works, June serving where needed as an Interim Regional Minister. She would become a pastor at the First Christian Church in White Hall, IL for thirteen years, before both she and Loren chose to retire and take up active lives serving on various boards, participating in councils, clubs, and mentoring in their spare time. After their nuptials, she returned to Jacksonville, IL with Loren to start their lives together. June would return to Walla Walla after a little over a year in Missouri, and married Loren Cline, whom she had met in her travels, in June of 1984 at her home church in Walla Walla. Forever interested in further education and learning, June would enroll and complete numerous units in the Basic and Advanced Clinical Pastoral Education program at the University of Missouri Health Sciences Center in 1981, further working there as a Chaplain-Counselor, and later as Interim Senior Minister of the First Christian Church in Jefferson City, MO. Upon graduation, she would take a position as Associate Regional Minister of the Christian Church in Pennsylvania for over five years, assisting in programming and even editing their regional paper, before moving to Missouri and becoming the Associate regional Minister of the Christian Church of Mid-America, further serving for four and a half years. She was ordained into the Christian ministry in 1972. In 1966, she decided to pursue a new career and chose to enter The Graduate Seminary of Phillips University in Enid, OK, where she would graduate in 1969 with her Masters of Religious Education, working both as an emergency room nurse and as a Sunday school teacher in Enid throughout, and even helping to start a pastoral counseling center in the area. June would receive her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in Portland, OR in 1958, which took her to the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, IL for a year before returning to Walla Walla to serve as a Public Health and School Nurse for seven years, often spending her spare time working with junior high youth and in community outreach. She grew up in Walla Walla, attending the Thomas School as a child, and later graduating from Walla Walla High School in the Class of 1953. She was born on Jin Walla Walla, WA, to Lawrence C. June Christensen Cline, 81, passed away at the Kansas Christian Home in Newton, KS on July 12, 2017.
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