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Obituary For June Chisholm Lumas
Early in the morning of August 9, 2025, June Chisholm Lumas passed away in her sleep in her apartment at Cogir-Fremont assisted living facility. June was 81 years old.
She was born in San Francisco, grew up in San Anselmo, and lived in Milpitas, since 1967. She attended Marin Catholic High School and graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in English. She was a librarian’s assistant, a bookstore manager, owner operator of the A&J Saddlery and Feed store, and owner of A&J Ranch in Milpitas. She was a voracious reader of romance novels, a great cook, a great seamstress. She regularly rode her registered quarter horse mare in nearby Ed Levin Park. She was active in St Elizabeth’s Church and wrote liturgies for the Sunday guitar Masses. She loved to travel and stay in casino hotels where she could play quarter slot machines for hours. She enjoyed a 10 day Caribbean cruise with friends from the Elks Lodge. After a week in London with friends from Salt Lake City, she returned to the US on the QEII. In the 70’s she had a VW camper in which the family camped all along the West Coast including a week on a beach in Mexico and several week long vacations in Yosemite Park.
She is survived by her husband of 61 years Albert J. Lumas and children Katie & Bruce Dugger of Corvalis, OR, Lisa Lumas of Honolulu, HI, Robert & Fale Lumas of Ewa Beach, HI and Tracy, CA. She is survived by four grandchildren, Situe Lumas, Luse Lumas, Albert Lumas, Sesa Lumas, and by her younger brother Gordon Chisholm of Tacoma, WA. She was preceded in death by her parents Gordon and Frances Chisholm and her sister-in-law Peggy Chisholm.
In November 2025, the family will have a private memorial service on Al’s boat in Discovery Bay, CA and will then carry her cremains on the boat to the Sacramento River so they can float down to the San Francisco Bay.
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James Klein
June and I were very close during our last 2 years at MC. At that time she was undoubtedly the kindest and most upbeat person in my life. Spent a lot of time with her family who treated me like one of their own. June had great human insight and could use it to gently encourage others to see what they might be missing. For example, the last time we were together was in late August after our graduation. She and her family hosted a going-away party right before I left for St Joseph's Seminary in Mountain View on the penninsula. Without saying explicitly, "You're making a mistake," she suggested that I might further reflect on that decision -- even at the 11th hour. It took two-and-a-half more years of reflection for me to see the wisdom of June's counsel. Thank-you, dear friend, for our time together.