June Margaret d’Adrian Horton

June Margaret d’Adrian Horton, née Sculfer, was born June 18, 1935, in Shipley, Yorkshire, England. She died November 10, 2013, in a hospital in Fort Myers, Florida from metastatic cancer. She was educated at the prestigious Withington Girls’ School in Manchester, England, and later at Birmingham University , England, where she studied Geography, History, and French. There, on October 25, 1955, she met Derek Horton, whom she married on December 21, 1957, in Ashton-on-Mersey, Cheshire, England. They emigrated in September 1959 to the USA, where they settled in Columbus, Ohio. Their four children were born there: Martin, 1961; Veronica, 1963; Fiona, 1965; and Simon, 1968. Eight grandchildren subsequently arrived; Mika and Tori to Martin and Karen; Nicholas, Elizabeth, Eleanor, and Samuel to Veronica and Jack Bashian; Elena and Alex to Fiona and Rick Medich. Step-grandchildren are Samantha to Fiona and Rachel to Simon.

June taught history and geography on the faculty of Ohio Dominican College (formerly St. Mary of the Springs) in Columbus, and earned her PhD from Ohio State in 1981. Between 1973 and 1993 she held faculty appointments at Denison College, Otterbein College, and Ohio State, teaching world political and economic geography.

Among the many teaching responsibilities she had during her career, she served as a volunteer to teach, for college credit, convicts at the maximum-security prison in Marion, Ohio. June and Derek moved to Bethesda, Maryland, in 1993 and June gave an extended series of lectures on Sub-Saharan Africa to personnel of the State Department and later the CIA. This continued until her diagnosis of ovarian cancer in late 2011, although she continued her volunteer work and extensive travel until late 2013. She and her husband traveled widely in all seven continents: Africa, North and South America, Europe, Australia, Antarctica, and several countries in the Middle East. They lived for extended periods of time in France and in Germany, and visited Japan on an annual basis during more than 20 years. They spent time every year at their beloved family cottage in the Isles of Scilly, England, and also at their beach-front apartment in Marco Island, as well as at their residence in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She loved music, especially classical music, and playing the piano. She enjoyed swimming, hiking, skiing, good food and wine, and many, many friendships. Next spring the family is planning to have a service of remembrance for June at the parish church in the Isles of Scilly in England. Following June's wishes, they will scatter her ashes in the churchyard at Old Town on the island.