June Bergstein Passes

June Carol Bergstein, wife of Harness Tracks of America Executive Vice President Stan Bergstein, passed away early this morning at Hospice Family Care in Tucson, four days after the couple’s 60th wedding anniversary

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A regal, elegant, and popular model in her youth, June had worked at Mme. Marguerite Pick’s Michigan Avenue salon in Chicago, for General Motors and J. L. Hudson in Detroit, and for the famed Ford Agency in New York.

June studied opera in Chicago with the renowned soprano and teacher Rosa Raisa, before her marriage to Stan on June 4, 1950, in San Gabriel, California, where he was working at the Western Harness meeting at Santa Anita.

She is survived by Stan; their son, Al, who retired from Microsoft after 10 years to found Mountainstone Productions, a video documentary firm, in Port Townsend, Washington; their daughter, Lisa, married to Dr. Craig Tremback, president of Atmet, an international atmospheric and meteorological firm in Lafayette, Colorado; and four grandsons.

Funeral services will be private. Memorial contributions may be made to the HTA College Scholarship Fund and sent to HTA, 4640 E. Sunrise Drive, Suite 200, Tucson, AZ 85718.

Please join Standardbred Canada in offering condolences to the family and friends of June Bergstein.

(HTA)

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June was a very dear friend of my mother.I wish my condolence to the whole family.

Brian

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