June Elleonora Juengel Mckinney

June Elleonora Juengel Mckinney passed away peacefully at the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro Arkansas, Wednesday, August 5, 2021. She lived in Florence, Alabama for the past 51 years. She was born May 10, 1945 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Survived by her daughter Tamara “Tammy” and husband Scott and her two grandchildren Drew and Ashley Roberson, who refer to their grandmother as “Oma”, her son Don Mckinney all of Jonesboro,  and her brother Victor Sr. and wife Janet Juengel of Helena, Arkansas, her nephew David Bond and his wife Karin, and their daughter Peyton Bond, Adrian Bond, nephew Mike and Debbie Bond and their sons Chris, Richard, and Scott, brother in law Julian and Bette Mckinney, Greg , Julie, Mitchell, Keith and Dori Mckinney and Cheree and Mike Hutton.

Proceeded in death by her husband of 46 years Don Mckinney Sr, her mother and father, Elleonora and Victor Juengel, sister Jane and brother-in-law Bill Bond, her nephew Stewart Juengel, sister-in-law Neicy Mckinney, brother-in-law Butch and his wife Nancy Mckinney.

June studied at Sacred Heart Academy until the 10th grade when it closed and completed high school at Central in Helena. Studied at the University of Seven Seas and then

Ouchita Baptist college where she was married to Don Mckinney. She and Don moved to Decatur Alabama to give birth to her son and daughter. She volunteered with the Jaycees to work with children with MS, moved to a Huntsville for a few years before moving to Florence to teach dance, worked with the city to bring national /regional soccer tournaments to Florence, Alabama. She worked for St. Joseph church for twenty years - supervising the building of the new hall, renovation of the school building, maintenance of the church properties, started a group to serve the poor, and served as Church Secretary for Father Mark, Father David, Father James, and Father O’Reilly.

She was one of the first female Extraordinary Ministers at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Florence, Alabama. Then she worked for several years for a Florence attorney where she helped and made many friends, she even worked the fall festival silent auction in 2019 where she had so much fun, and last year she worked for the Census Bureau. She was on the Forest Hills swimming pool board, member of the Forest Hills Neighborhood watch, and member of the St. Joseph Catholic Church.

June was the queen of crafts. She painted, crocheted angels, made wire spiders, butterflies and dragonflies. She traveled every year to participate in Lil’ bit of Christmas craft fair at A-State with friends, and to celebrate Christmas with the Grandmas in Jonesboro.

She loved dancing , music, organizing, and shopping. She collected Santa Clauses especially those with the baby Jesus. Her favorite times were with her grandchildren at the pool, playing baseball, working out at the gym and playing monopoly. Everyone remembers June’s smiles and kindness.

Visitation will be Tuesday, August 10 at 9 AM at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Jonesboro, and Father Daniel Ramos will celebrate mass at 10 AM. A graveside burial at Holy Cross Cemetery will follow mass. The Mary’s Heart Ladies will host a lunch for family and friends in the church hall following the committal service.

A celebration of June’s life will be held at her residence in Florence, Alabama, at a later date.

For lasting memorials please consider donations to Blessed Sacrament Church Rectory 1107 East Highland Jonesboro, Arkansas, 72401 or St. John Newman University Parish College Students, 2800 East Johnson Ave, Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401. To sign an online guestbook, go to emersonfuneralhome.com.