June Celestine Delfino OBITUARY

June Celestine Delfino June 4, 1923- January 5, 2015 Los Banos June Celestine Delfino died peacefully in her sleep on Monday, January 5, 2015 in Los Banos, California at the age of 91.

She was born on June 4, 1923 in San Francisco, California. She was predeceased by her parents John and Mary Capurro, brothers Mervin and John (Bud) Capurro, and husband of 65 years, Louis H. Delfino. She graduated from the Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in San Francisco in 1941 and San Francisco College for Women in 1945. June spent her youth residing in both the rural environment of her parent’s Moss Landing farm and the urban city environment of her grandmother’s home in San Francisco. After her marriage in 1946 she lived in Watsonville raising her family and participating in community and church organizations. She and her husband, Louis, moved to Gustine, California in 2000. She will be remembered by all who knew her as a very generous, kind, and caring person who was keenly interested in the other person rather than herself.

June is survived by herdaughter, Kathleen Nichols (Gary) of Pacific Grove, and her sons David Delfino (Frances) of Royal Oaks, Louis Delfino (Margaret) of Watsonville, and Peter Delfino (Teresa) of Rio Del Mar. She leaves six granddaughters, Jannae Lizza, Amy and Alyssa Nichols, Heather Nichols Beck, Petrise Switzer, and Maria Delfino and five grandsons David, Dominic, Nicolas, and Peter Delfino, and Peter Nichols. She also leaves one great granddaughter, Clara Rose Beck.

Visitation will be held at Ave Maria Memorial Chapel on Wednesday, January 14, from 6 to 9 p.m. with a Rosary recited at 7pm. A Mass for Christian Burial will be held on Thursday, January 15, at 11:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Castroville with burial following at the Castroville Cemetery. Donations in memory of June may be made to the Moreland Notre Dame School’s Memorial Fund in Watsonville or New Bethany Residential Care and Skilled Nursing Community in Los Banos.