Paralee M. Junk

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Paralee M. Junk

OGDEN, UT - Paralee McKay Junk, age 95, passed away on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 in Fairfax County, Virginia. Paralee was a source of great joy, encouragement and comfort to all who knew her.

She was born October 12, 1915, the sixth of seventh children, to William Hugh McKay and Beulah Proffitt McKay, on an 800-acre farm in Locust Bayou, Arkansas. Her mother died when Paralee was 12, and her father died three years later; she lived with her older brother and his wife until the age of 18. She graduated from high school as class valedictorian in 1934, and from Chillicothe Business College, Chillicothe, Missouri, in 1936.

She worked three years as secretary to the Treasurer of Greyhound Van Lines in Chicago, Illinois. In 1939, Paralee received a civil service appointment as a Steno-Clerk at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C.

In Washington, she met her future husband, Robert Junk, who was attending George Washington Law School. They were married shortly after he was admitted to the DC District Court and Court of Appeals in 1940, and began working for the General Accounting Office. During the War, he was called to active duty, and she stayed with her two children in Ogden when he was deployed for two years to the Pacific Theater. After the War, the family returned to Washington for two years before returning and settling for good in Ogden. In 1955, she was reinstated in Civil Service, and retired from the Accounting Department at Hill Air Force Base in 1975.

She was a member of St. James Parish, and was a past President of the Reserve Officers Wives Club.

She is survived by a son and two daughters, Robert John McKay (nAC. Robert John Junk, Jr.), and wife Marlis, of Burke, Virginia; Theresa Nattress, and husband, Joe; and Rosemary Malan, of Ogden; nine grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild; and many fond nieces and nephews in the great state of Arkansas.

Her husband Robert and her sons Thomas Joseph Junk and James McKay Junk predeceased her.

Her Catholic faith, love of family, and courage in the face of both opportunity and adversity have been an inspiration to all who knew her. Much loved and missed by family and friends, we commend her into the hands of the Lord.

Funeral mass will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Saint James Catholic Church, 495 North Harrison Boulevard, in Ogden.

Friends may call at Lindquist''s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Boulevard on Friday, from 6 to 8 P.M. where Vigil Service will be held at 7:30 P.M.

Interment, Lindquist''s Washington Heights Memorial Park, 4500 Washington Blvd.

Send condolences to the family at: www.lindquistmortuary.com