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JUNE AMOS GRAMMER<br />
Artist-designer June Amos Grammer was born<br />
in Woodbury, Gloucester <strong>County</strong>, NJ in 1927 and<br />
raised in Fort Worth, TX. After graduation from<br />
North Texas Agricultural College with a degree in<br />
advertising, she moved to <strong>New</strong> York City, where<br />
she spent the next 25 years working in fashion and<br />
children's book illustration. She was art director for<br />
the Franklin Simon department stores and design<br />
illustrator for the promotion department at Harper's<br />
Bazaar magazine. She taught fashion illustration<br />
at Parsons School of Design for ten years.<br />
An interest in antique dolls prompted her to<br />
study and draw them. This lead to Lenox China<br />
asking her to design porcelain dolls. The dolls,<br />
introduced in 1981, have become prized collectors'<br />
items. At the time of her death she was creating several lines of dolls for the Seymour<br />
Mann Company. June was known in the area as a speaker on doll design and doll<br />
making. She was also recognized for her designs for greeting cards, Christmas<br />
ornaments, books, jewelry and macrame. In 1983, she did the cover and beautiful<br />
illustrations for a book about a doll by Mary Mapes Dodge.<br />
In 1962 she and her artist husband, George, purchased the defunct 1880's<br />
Cokesbury Presbyterian Church in Tewksbury Township from the Cokesbury Methodist<br />
Church, which had been using it as a community center and Sunday school. The<br />
couple devoted years to turning it into a weekend home, with studios in the loft and<br />
living quarters on the main floor. The church/home still kept its original stained glass<br />
windows. A prized possession was a motto embroidered by a friend stating "Church<br />
Sweet Church." The couple maintained an apartment in <strong>New</strong> York City, where they<br />
stayed weekdays, while weekends and off-time were spent in Cokesbury. Once she<br />
started spending weekends in <strong>Hunterdon</strong> <strong>County</strong>, June became active with the<br />
<strong>Hunterdon</strong> Museum of Art. Over the years her works were shown in numerous exhibits<br />
there.<br />
She died on 9 November 1993, at the age of 66. Memorial services celebrating her<br />
life were held at the National Arts Club in <strong>New</strong> York.<br />
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