This Page is Dedicated to
June Bland
18th March 1929 - 15th September 2009
Founder Member
Trustee and Spiritual Healer
With Love, Thanks and Eternal Gratitude
A Brief Outline of June's Life
There are so many things that could be said about June but unfortunately space here is short ……
She was born in Middlesex on 18th march 1929 and lived in Kilburn until moving to Bromborough, here on the Wirral in the late nineteen-forties, then on to Port Sunlight which she loved dearly and where she spent the rest of her life.
June met her husband to be, Dougie, at a dance hall in Birkenhead Town Centre and married him on 24th March 1951. Seven years later Gary was born then Howard in 1960. She had two grandchildren and one great grandchild.
She worked as a telephone operator for the GPO, then as a dinner lady at Grove Street school in New Ferry and finally on the production line at Levers till her retirement 1986.
Ten years ago June was one of the original Founder Members and a Trustee of the Independent Peoples Spiritualist Church and in her mid-seventies trained and qualified as a Spiritual Healer.
Her qualities for caring, and the energies she issued, when administering healing made her very popular with those in need and was often asked for on a regular basis. She gave encouragement to others who where training, was outspoken and forthright when asked for advice, but always sensitive to the feelings of others.
She was a dear friend to many;
including YvonneFleet, Margaret Woodfine, myself, my partner and my own mother, and spent many happy hours talking about the “old days” when having Sunday Dinner with us before going to church.
June had a wonderful sense of humour, and was dearly loved by those who frequently attended the IPSC.
Sadly June took ill early in 2009 and spent many months in hospital, she returned to Port Sunlight for a short time before she passed away.
June Bland, our dear friend “Mrs Two Trees”, will be sorely missed by many, but is now reunited with Dougie, her family, and her friends who have gone before her, and is, I am sure watching over us all
June & Dougie on their Wedding Day
Catch the sunshine, though it flickers
Through a dark and dismal cloud
Though it falls so faint and feeble
On a heart with sorrow bowed
Catch it quickly; it is passing
Passing rapidly, away
It has only come to tell you
There is yet a brighter day
Catch the sunshine, though life’s tempest
May unfurl a chilling blast
Catch the little, hopeful straggler
Storms will not, forever last
Don’t give up and say forsaken
Don’t begin to say, “I’m sad”
Look, there comes a gleam of sunshine
Catch it! Oh, it seems so glad
Catch the sunshine, don’t be grieving
O’er that darksome billow there
Life’s a sea of stormy billows
We must meet them everywhere
Pass right through them, do not tarry
Overcome the heaving tide
There’s a sparkling gleam of sunshine
Waiting on the other side
Catch the sunshine, catch it gladly
Messenger in hope’s employ
Sent through clouds, through storm and billow
Bringing you a cup of joy
Don’t be sighing, don’t be weeping
Life you know, is but a span
There’s no time to sigh or sorrow
Catch the sunshine when you can
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