This website was created and is maintained by:
Philip J. June
Tucson, AZ
This website was first created
and published on 12.05.07;
Last update was 12.05.07
the June Family
Of Hornell, New York, USA
John was born and raised in Hornell by Glenn and Benedicte June, while Carol hailed from nearby Avoca, where Winton and Beatrice Campbell made
their home. After graduation from high school in 1939, John took up employment at the family ice cream business, but Hitler and Pearl
Harbor altered a lot of plans, and in January, 1942, John enlisted in the Marine Corps to go to war with the Japanese.
After training as an aircraft engine mechanic, he was assigned as crew chief for a C46 Curtiss "Commando". This
aircraft, coincidentally, was built by the Curtiss-Wright Aircraft plant in Buffalo NY. His first duty station
was EWA Marine Corps Air Station on the island of Oahu, near the Pearl Harbor Naval Station. After a 2-year Pacific
tour, he served a year each at Corvallis , Oregon, and then El Centro, California.
While stationed at Corvallis, John took a furlough and returned to Hornell to marry Carol Campbell on April 30, 1944.
John was 23 years old, and Carol had just celebrated her 21st birthday 5 days before the wedding.
Master Sergeant John June was discharged in October, 1945 and had planned to report for work at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica
California. John delayed his trip, to help out at the ice cream plant and lost the job. As fate would
have it, he ended up staying in Hornell, working at the ice cream plant until it closed in 1970.
Carol worked for 31 years at the local
branch of the New York Department of Motor Vehicles, and retired as the supervisor of the local office in 1988.
John and Carol
have five children; Richard, Kathryn, Philip, David, and Patty.
C46 Commando
Back:
Kathryn, Richard
Front:
Patricia, David, Philip
Date?
Somewhere around 1955
The June Family History
John & Carol June - 1990
1944
1942
