June Augusta Casler (nee Haushalter) passed away peacefully on March 20, 2025, in Danvers, Mass. She was 104 years old. 

She was born on August 19, 1920, the day after the ratification of the 19^th Amendment, which gave U.S. women the right to vote. She was raised on her great grandfather’s farm in Water Valley, Erie County, New York. She was valedictorian of her high school and she graduated from the New York State College for Teachers at Albany (now SUNY-Albany), where she met her future husband, Edwin Casler. 

June remembered that she and Ed had gone out for ice cream on their first date, but he had only enough money for one return streetcar fare. So, he put her on the streetcar and then ran alongside, catching up at each stop to wave.

They were married in Albany, N.Y., on June 28, 1944. He was stationed with the U. S. Army Air Corps in New Jersey, while she conducted time motion studies for an industrial plant. In 1954, they relocated to Water Valley, where they had a house moved, over farm roads, to the Haushalter Farm’s former asparagus field fronting on Gowanda State Road. When their fourth child was in grade school, June began teaching reading in Eden, N.Y., then English and special education in Hamburg, N.Y., and ending her career as a librarian at the Hamburg Public Library. She was active in the League of Women Voters and the Hamburg Antique Study Club.

After Ed died in 2007, she moved to the Boston, Mass., area to be near her oldest son, John, and his family. There, she was involved in numerous book clubs and senior activities. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Anna Haushalter, her sister, Doris Agle, and her brother, Carl Haushalter. 

She is survived by her son John and his spouse Jane (Ellis) of Marblehead, Mass., son Jim of Houston, daughter Ann and her spouse Matt Putnam of Minneapolis; and daughter Pat and her spouse Jim Peters of Chicago. She is also survived by ten grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.

A memorial service is being planned for this summer in Hamburg, N.Y. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be given to the Public Broadcasting System Foundation, the Kaplan Family Hospice in Danvers, Mass., or the Clifton Lutheran Church in Marblehead, Mass.