Doris June (Housman) Duca departed this world at the age of 87 on Sunday, January 28, 2018, at 2:57 pm.

June was born on December 3, 1930, in Miami, Oklahoma, to Merriel Edgar Housman, Sr. and Viola Lucille (Hopkins) Housman (both of whom predeceased her).

June was a 1948 graduate of Miami High School. Upon graduation she attended business college to train in the secretarial field. She moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the early 1950's. She worked in various secretarial positions most notably with McDonnell Douglas in the 1960's. After being laid off from McDonnell Douglas, she went to work at Martin Logan Moyers Martin and Conway law firm before moving with her boss to the Mabee Foundation in January 1977. She retired from the Mabee Foundation in October 2015.

June was an independent, feisty, and strong-willed woman who enjoyed life to the fullest. She was a Den Mother for Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, as well as a Troup Leader for Girl Scouts. She enjoyed traveling all over the world and the United States having visited the majority of the 50 states (including Alaska and Hawaii), the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. She has cruised through the Panama Canal (twice), traveled through most of the lower Canadian provinces, cruised Eastern and Western Caribbean, Hawai'i, Panama, Central America, and South America. She has also traveled to Mexico, Germany, Sweden, and Norway.

June enjoyed going to Tulsa Drillers baseball games, as well as University of Oklahoma Sooners football games both in Norman, Oklahoma, and Dallas, Texas. Because of her daughter's love of the Kansas City Royals, a trip to Kansas City, Missouri, to watch the Royals play was an annual event for many years. Other sporting event trips took her to Kansas City Chiefs football, St. Louis Cardinals baseball, St. Louis Rams football, and Dallas Cowboys football.

Another event, June enjoyed attending was the annual Hopkins/Housman family reunion where she was able to visit with her double-cousins and other family members.

From the mid 1960's until 1997, June and her family traveled to Grand Lake in Northeastern Oklahoma where lake homes were visited almost every weekend of the year, as well as several summer vacations. She greatly enjoyed fishing and boating.

Along with her parents, June was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Eugene Duca, and her son, John Eugene. Duca.

June is survived by her sister, Vera Jeanne (Housman) Frost and her husband Richard of Tucson, Arizona; her brother, Paul Edgar Housman and his wife Francie of Kershaw, South Carolina; son Ronald Edward Duca and his wife Cynthia Ann (Goranson) of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; and daughter Laura Mariann Duca of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

June has three grandsons -- Daniel Edward Duca of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Matthew Thomas Duca of Yreka, California; and Brandon Antonio Duca of Irvine, California. She also has three great granddaughters -- Kennedy of Sand Springs, Oklahoma; and Olivia and Ruby June of Yreka, California.

Per her wishes, June was cremated and will be placed next to her husband at Memorial Park Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

A memorial service will be held on Monday, March 26, 2018, at 10:00 am in the Chapel at Saints Valley located in Memorial Park Cemetery located at 5111 South Memorial Drive, Tulsa, Oklahoma, under the direction of Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home. A lunch will follow at Michael V's Restaurant located at 8222 East 103rd Street (103rd and Memorial). Moore's Southlawn 918-663-2233.