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June Steinmark Obituary
AGE: 91 • Shark River Hills
June Studeman Steinmark, 91, of Shark River Hills, passed away on February 27 at the Tower Lodge Care Center in Wall Twp. June was a volunteer at Allaire State Park where she managed the General Store for many years. June live in Nebraska with her husband and together they owned Sam's Lanes Bowling Alley in Gordon. She later lived in Aurora Colorado where she worked at JC Penney Department Store and Jerry's Propane.
June was born in Spring Lake at Ann May Hospital and raised in Lake Como. She lived in Nebraska and Aurora Colorado before moving to Shark River Hills 30 years ago.
June was a remarkable loving and caring person who was deeply devoted to her loving family.
She is predeceased by her husband Samuel, her parents Albert and Marjorie Studeman, her two sisters, Minerva Hall and Wilma Bittel - Dodd.
She is survived by her daughter, Toni Marie Steinmark of Gilbert AZ, 3 grandchildren, Justin Steinmark and Ryan and Ashli Terry, her great-grandsons, Anya and Brayden Terry, her sister Doris Studeman of Brick Twp., and many nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be on Thursday, March 2, from 5 to 8 Pm at the Reilly Bonner Funeral Home, 801 D Street, Belmar, NJ. A Graveside Service will be held on Friday at 11 AM at Saint Catharine Cemetery in Wall Twp. For further information or to send condolences to the family, please visit reillybonnerfuneralhome.com.
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Hance Sitkus
March 1, 2017
June Steinmark committed close to 1,000 volunteer hours ANNUALLY to the Historic Village at Allaire. She organized and made some assemblance out of the Village library in the late 80's. She catalogued part of the museum's collection in the early 1990s, and then from 1991 to 1994 when the village could no longer afford to pay a General Store Manager due to a State-wide depression, she started to manage the Store. She inherited an enormousness amounts of stock to sell, a daunting task. Every nook, closet, and hidden space was searched out for merchandise. June found it, with the Store clerk's help, but she POURED the next three years into cleaning up THE Store, selling off (at a profit) what merchandise she could - some Midwestern haggling included along with her former retail background. She successfully kept this Building open and running , as it was a visitor's favorite.
To that end I consider June my first real boss. She gave me my marching orders for the day, gave me independence with them, but wanted to see the end product. In general, we agreed on things, disagreed on other things. But most importantly we respected each other tremendously. She knew I was a young buck and I needed to see things fail myself. Because of June the Store didn't close like so many other businesses in NJ at that time. She kept the lights on. In 1993 the village finally climbed out of the hole it was in and I took over the Store adopting many of June's retail principles. I was given one clerk to help me. In 1994 June was named Volunteer of the Year and recognized for her years of service. Even in 1994 she logged close to 1,000 hours as she joined the Allaire Village Auxiliary. In 1996 my Mom, Linda Morton Sitkus, called and and asked if she would come back to the Store to help out as a clerk. But there was one condition, she was to come back this time as a paid employee. She graciously
agreed, after some severe begging. She comtinually visited the Store after even retiring as a clerk in 2001. She then was full time volunteer with the Allaire Village Auxiliary. June talked fondly of her family.
June was an absolute jewel who was one of a kind and brought a smile and some spark to your day. She spoke fondly of her heritage, her husband, daughter and grandchildren. She will surely be missed. Hance M. Sitkus, CPA - Chairman of the Board Allaire Village Inc.
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