June Claire (Heisler) Pluimer was born on May 27, 1927 in Mobridge, SD to Frank and Fern (Schwartz) Heisler. She passed away peacefully on April 1, 2017 at the Dorsett Health Care Facility in Spearfish, at the age of 89.

After leaving the Mound City – Herreid area, the family relocated to Newell and later to Belle Fourche. June graduated from Belle Fourche High School at the age of 16 with the Class of 1944, and went to work in the war effort as a secretary at the San Diego Naval Base. She returned to Rapid City after the war and worked as a bookkeeper in Rapid City where she met her future husband, Wayne Pluimer, an aspiring Electrical Engineering student at the School of Mines. June and Wayne were married on June 5, 1948 and their first son, Edward, was born in August 1949. The couple relocated to Sioux Falls shortly thereafter to pursue Wayne's engineering career.

As fate would have it, Wayne and June were offered the opportunity to return to their home town of Belle Fourche to manage a service station for Tom and Doris Gay, where Wayne had worked while finishing high school. They gladly accepted that opportunity and would later purchase Gay's Mobil station. The couple's son, Richard, was born in 1951 and son Mark followed in 1952. Daughters Jaka and Janet came in 1955 and 1957. While Wayne and June were building a new state-of-the-art truck stop, Wayne's 24-Hour Conoco, at the junction of newly relocated Highways 85 and 212, Julie was born in 1958, and youngest daughter, Jill, completed the family unit on election day in 1960.

June was a leader ahead of her time. In addition to her duties as a mother of seven, June was a full partner in the truck stop business, attending to all bookkeeping and financial matters. She was a Toastmistress, and very active in Republican politics on a local, state and national level, attending the 1964 and 1976 Republican National Conventions. June was also a full business partner with son, Mark, in acquiring the KBFS radio station in Belle Fourche and started her own clothing business, the Denim Depot, with help from daughter, Jill. She was a world traveler both with and without Wayne. After the couple retired in 1984, June excitedly pursued classes at Black Hills State in Spearfish while she continued to sew, quilt, knit and crochet, and to open her home in generous hospitality to friends, family and strangers alike.

June's faith was a vital element of her life. She was a long-time member of the Open Bible Church (now Summit Fellowship) in Belle Fourche, where she taught Sunday School and girl's etiquette classes. June especially enjoyed listening to old hymns, a pleasure that continued to feed her kind and gentle spirit despite the dementia/Alzheimer's that plagued her for many years.

June is survived by her seven children and their spouses, Ed and Peggy of Minneapolis, MN, Dick and Gloria of Spearfish, SD, Mark and Dee of Colorado Springs, CO, Jaka and Leo Imolati of Omaha, NE, Janet and Dan Monlux of Sioux Falls, SD, Julie and Earl Haeflinger of Aurora, CO and Jill Pluimer of Aurora, CO; 15 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren, with more on the way.

June was predeceased by her husband, Wayne, parents, Frank Heisler and Fern Holt, her stepfather, Erwin Holt, as wells as brothers, Wally and Erwin, sister, Bonnie, and son-in-law, Richard Roorda.

A time of sharing and stories will be held at the Fidler-Isburg Funeral Chapel in Spearfish at 10:30 AM on Friday, April 7th, with a viewing time at 10 AM. Burial will follow at the National Cemetery in Sturgis at 12:30 PM. A memorial is established to provide continuing professional education and development to memory care staff.

Arrangements are under the care of Fidler-Isburg Funeral Chapels and Crematory Service of Spearfish.