Josephine Lueck, was born on Valentines Day February 14, 1935 in Phoenix Arizona on a dairy farm she passed away in El Cajon California on Christmas morning December 25, 2020. Josephine loved animals she learned to milk cows milk goats as a Young girl and you could always see her out playing on the farm and even growing up you never saw her without a dog. She also loved to ride horses she and her friend I to me who lived thought too far down the country spent many hours and days riding in the fields and along the ditch banks. She graduated from Central Union high school, worked for the telephone company and with her husband started a horse ranch and saddle shop the horses are truly the love of her life. Josephine is survived by her one and only son Carl De Winton of San Diego, CA; her last sister Gertrude Lueck; nieces, Kristina Wolfe Allen and Linda Wolfe Wells; their husbands and children of Tehachapi CA; great-niece, Deianira Wolfe of El centro CA; numerous nephews, in Buckeye and Phoenix Arizona She is predeceased by her husbands Byron De Winton and Cecil King. A Graveside service will be held on Friday, February 12, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. at Evergreen Cemetery in El Centro, CA.
Published in Imperial Valley Press Online on Feb. 12, 2021.