Age 87, daughter of Irene Peirone Barbarula and Paul Barbarula. June grew up in a loving family with her younger sister Anne and many relatives nearby. She attended grade school in Nutley NJ and high school in Newark NJ, forming friendships that lasted her lifetime. She attended Katharine Gibbs College in Montclair NJ and Seton Hall University in South Orange NJ. June was a long-time resident of Erie, PA, where she was an executive at WQLN, and later of Binghamton NY, where she worked at WSKG Public Television. She met and married Charles Robert Smith Jr. of New York City, (who was in the Army), in 1957. June and Charles lived for three years in Syracuse NY, where Charles worked on his PhD in English. Then they settled in Erie PA, where Charles taught for many years at Gannon University, and they raised their five children. After Charles's passing and her retirement, June bought a summer cottage at the shore in Forked River, NJ. In 2019 she moved to Salem OR to live in a memory care facility near two of her daughters. Though her last few years were difficult, for almost all her life June was a super-sharp, kind, generous, funny person, with a genuine, open curiosity about everyone she met.

June was preceded in death by her beloved husband Charles and her son Charles R. Smith III, known to all as Chuck.

She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Anne and Jack Degan of Sydney, Australia, and four children, Paul Smith (Chelsea Harriman) of Montclair NJ, Anne Zientek (Ron Beloin) of Salem OR, Jean Rosenthal of Erie, and Barbara Smith Warner (Christopher Warner) of Portland OR; grandchildren; as well as many cousins, nieces, nephews and dear friends.

Inurnment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery.