Margaret June Koch Seely

Margaret June Koch Seely was born on June 12, 1928 in Crandall, Mississippi to Georgia Josephine Loper Koch (Chatom, Alabama) and Anthony Koch (what is now the Czech Republic). Raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, June graduated from high school a year early and had the great good fortune to meet Edgar T. Seely while he, a Brooklyn, New York lad, was briefly stationed at nearby Camp Shelby during World War II. Ed and June married in 1945. Life’s journeys and Ed’s talent took them to Huntsville, Alabama where Ed was a mathematician at NASA’s Computational Lab as part of the Moon Team; June supported his work as a stay-at-home mom for their three daughters.

June volunteered as a Red Cross Gray Lady, softball coach’s assistant and band mom. She loved to read, socialize, craft, jitterbug, enjoyed vigorous games of bridge, Scrabble and Bookworm, and later in life, loved to quilt. In 2001 Ed and June relocated to the Rockhaven community in Glastonbury, Connecticut where, upon Ed’s passing in 2004, June became an ardent supporter of the Glastonbury Senior Center, making many new friends and enthusiastically embracing the myriad activities and day trips offered there. In 2019 Covid-19 interrupted her travel, causing her to extend her winter stay in Florida, which ended up lasting the rest of her long life. June “gussied up” nearly every day of her life to enjoy luncheon outings and socializing with people she met along the way.

June celebrated her recent 95th birthday wearing a sparkling celebratory tiara; the day before she passed away found her enjoying a dozen raw oysters in an island restaurant on the Gulf of Mexico. Death came swiftly and ultimately in her sleep just after midnight on August 4th, 2023.

June was predeceased by her parents Anthony and Josephine Koch, her sister Bobbie Koch Given, her husband, Edgar Seely and her grandson Julian Ulloa. She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law Barbara Seely Cooper and Scott Cooper of Bonita Springs, Florida (who generously shared their home with June in her last years), Cindy Seely DeLorenzo and Tony DeLorenzo of Hebron, Connecticut, and Donna Seely Ulloa and Alex Ulloa of Utica and Inlet, NY; her grandchildren T. Alexander Wise and fiancée Megan Vendetti of Bristol, Connecticut and Michael Ulloa of Marlborough, Connecticut; step-grandchildren Toni DeLorenzo, Michael DeLorenzo and Brittney DeLorenzo; step-great-grandsons RJ Walker, Jr. and Oliver Stephens, great-granddaughter Lily J. Wise of Bristol, Connecticut; and niece Catherine Given Tranum of Tampa, Florida and Cambridge, Massachusetts.