The SERVICE for June will be held at Hill and Son Funeral Home in Appleton City, Missouri on Friday, January 29, 2016 at 2:00 p.m.

The MINISTER officiating at the service will be Pastor Tony Reynolds.

VISITATION will be held at the funeral home before the service from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Friday, January 29, 2016.


INTERMENT will be in Taberville Cemetery, Taberville, Missouri.

The family suggests any MEMORIAL donations made in June's name be given to the Taberville Cemetery.


June Maxine (Strickler) Morgan Jelks, daughter of Charles R. and Irene (Harleman) Strickler was born in Taberville, Missouri on June 2, 1937. She departed this life Monday, January 25, 2016 at Truman Lake Manor in Lowry City, Missouri at the age of 78.
June raised five wonderful sons and always enjoyed cooking big dinners for them. She loved canning fruits and vegetables that she bought from the Amish and going to flea markets and auctions.
In her later years, June lived in Rockville and Taberville, Missouri. She was baptized in 1995 at the Rockville Baptist Church in Rockville, Missouri.
June was a nurse and had worked at Appleton City Manor and at a nursing home in El Dorado Springs, El Dorado Springs, Missouri.
June was preceded in death by her parents; brother, James Strickler; two grandsons: Brandon Kaut and Shannon White; four sons: Jerry Lynn Murdock, David Wayne Murdock, Troy Lee White and Gordon Charles White, Jr.; three husbands: Ralph Murdock, Gordon White, Sr. and Green Morgan.
June is survived by son, James Douglas Murdock and wife, Kathryn, El Dorado Springs, Missouri; husband, Jay Jelks, Osceola, Missouri; three sisters: Betty Hayes and husband, Jerry, Creighton, Missouri, Bernice Marshall, Taberville, Missouri and Clara Dunham, Sedalia, Missouri; brother, Charles Strickler and wife, Martha, Peoria, Arizona; ten grandchildren, many great- grandchildren and great great-grandchildren, a host of nieces and nephews and special life-long friends, Sandy and Paul Linton, California.