June Diane Lynch, our beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed from this life into eternity on February 13, 2024, at the age of 90. She was born in Duluth, Minnesota on June 2, 1933, to parents John and Gladys Kotka. She grew up in Esko and Duluth and was a 1951 graduate of Central High School. In 1952 June married Robert Lynch; at the time of his passing in 2016, they had been married for 64 years. June and Bob were blessed with three sons and two daughters. They raised their family in the community of Hermantown, where they lived for more than sixty years.