June Marie Winhold, age 83, passed away peacefully on June 21, 2016, at the University of Vermont Medical Center after a brief but very challenging physical complication.
June was born on December 23, 1932, in Brownington, Vermont, to Ruth and Gilbert Dutton, and this was where she was raised on a dairy farm and gained her love and understanding for animals and nature. She graduated from Orleans High School and then Heaton School of Nursing. It was while working as a surgical nurse for Deaconess Medical Center in New Jersey that she met Dr. Otto Winhold. June became a flight attendant for United Airlines and traveled the world before the couple married in 1958. They made their home together on Bailey Road in Northfield, Vermont, and raised their family of two daughters, Karen and Kimberly (and their friends), many dogs, horses, cats, geese and wild animals requiring rehabilitating and releasing.
June was an activist before doing so was talked about as a thing to strive for; it was simply who she was. As a mom, she led Brownies, Girl Scouts and promoted environmental education in and outside of school settings. June chaperoned and carpooled and never hesitated to teach her own children, and whoever else’s were around, what it meant to be a rock solid individual and citizen of the community. Though a nurse and flight attendant by training, she was a teacher in the most authentic sense of the word. Anyone reading this who knew and loved June knows, if you were around her for any period of time, you were going to learn a thing or two about whatever you were doing, because whether it was, raising hens, making holiday chocolates, knitting a sweater or dealing with a “difficult” human or animal, June had some expertise to share.
Just a few of June’s passions and talents included gardening, tennis, both as player and spectator, cooking and baking, knitting, skiing, traveling, doing crafts and spending time with family and friends. June very much enjoyed riding horses and after she and Otto raised their family, they became deeply involved in the Icelandic Horse Farm in Fayston, Vermont. June, especially, loved sharing all aspects of this adventure with her daughters and, when they were born, her granddaughters. Her family and friends will remember her always as a remarkably steadfast, strong, loving and loyal person.
June is survived by her daughter, Karen Marie Winhold, and son-in-law, Luc Maranda, and her two granddaughters, Isabelle and Amelie Maranda, of the Mad River Valley. She is preceded in death by her daughter, Kimberly Sue Winhold, and her husband, Otto Ernest Winhold, M.D.
A celebration of June’s life will be on November 19, 2016, at the Mad River Inn in Waitsfield, Vermont. Further details will be provided at a later date. All are welcome to attend and celebrate June’s life.
Karen, her family and friends would like to express gratitude for the care and kindness provided by the surgical team and Baird sixth floor nursing staff at the University of Vermont Medical Center during June’s stay.
The June Winhold Memorial Scholarship has been established at Northfield Savings Bank. Anyone wishing to make donations is encouraged to do so in her memory.
