June (Roberts) Roberts

June Roberts, a native Charlestonian, died at home on Sept. 12 after a long battle with ovarian cancer. Ms. Roberts grew up on the Peninsula and was a proud graduate of Memminger High School. She went on to earn her degree as a registered nurse from the Medical University of South Carolina and a Master’s in Nursing from Boston College and became a psychiatric nurse practitioner. After graduate school she served on the faculty in the department of nursing at the University of New Hampshire, worked in private practice as a psychiatric nurse practitioner and later as the psychiatric liaison for Wentworth Douglass Hospital in Dover, New Hampshire. Ms. Roberts was active in her community wherever she lived. In Charleston, she participated in Democratic Party affairs, working tirelessly to register voters and to raise consciousness on social and political issues important to her. In retirement, she forged friendships among a wide swath of people, some new to the city, some longtime residents, who felt her to be an extraordinarily positive influence, indeed a mentor, in their lives. A daughter, Joan Hastings Glutting of Durham, New Hampshire, and a son, John Paul Glutting of Somerville, Massachusetts, survive her. A son-in-law, Adam Briggs Gilsdorf, and a daughter-in-law, Monserrat Rué Monné, survive as well, as do four grandchildren, John Hastings Glutting-Gilsdorf, Henry Russell Glutting-Gilsdorf, Jana Rué Glutting, and Gloria Rué Glutting. She also leaves her twin sister, Joan Martin and brother-in-law, Robert Martin, M.D., both of Fort Mill, SC, a brother Courtney Roberts of Charlotte, N.C., his wife, Pat Roberts, and a cousin, Ruth Dombrowski and her husband, Tom Dombrowski, of Charleston. A graveside service will be held on Saturday, Sept. 21, at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, at 9 a.m. The family will receive friends afterward at the Fellowship Hall of the Trinity United Methodist Church, on Meeting Street in downtown Charleston. The family has suggested in lieu of flowers that memorial donations be sent to the South Carolina Democratic Party, PO Box 5965, Columbia, SC 29250.