June D. Coury

June Dresda Bobo Young Coury was born on April 16, 1930 in Pilot Oak, Kentucky, and raised in a small town called Christmasville in the great state of Tennessee. Everyone knew June Bobo. Her dad, Foster, had a farm and raised chickens. When it came time to sell eggs, June, her dad, and her sister, Jill, would all get into the truck and head to town. June’s mom got very ill with tuberculosis and June was sent off to live with her dad’s sister whom she called Nanny, and Nanny’s husband whom she called Uncle Daddy when she was very young. June survived scarlet fever as a child, malaria as a teenager, and tuberculosis as a young adult.

She attended Christmasville Elementary School and then went on to Trezevant High School, moved to Colorado in her senior year and attended Alamosa High School where she graduated. She stayed in Colorado and enrolled in Adams State College where she met James Coury. They got married in Alamosa at The Sacred Heart Church then headed back East. Jim built the house where they lived and raised their five children.

June loved being a homemaker. She also was a den mother for boy scouts and involved with brownies and girl scouts when her children were young. Always there at a basketball or baseball game to cheer her kids on, even when she disagreed with the ref and ump! Nobody cheered louder than her!

She worked as a rental agent on weekends for James Keelty and Company when the kids were older. She loved holidays, especially Christmas when her and Jim would throw the best Christmas party this side of the Mississippi! Everyone was invited, old and young. The more the merrier for June. That’s why so many people loved her. She truly cared about people and quickly made friends. In fact, many of her children’s friends took her under their wing and lovingly referred to her as “Granny”. She has ten grandchildren, the LOVE of her life, and in November of 2017, a great grandson arrived whom she was so tickled to see and hold! Many, many memories she had of family gatherings, cookouts, game days, and apple pickin’. She loved to pick apples and wasn’t shy to climb a tree in search of the perfect one!

June loved to travel “back home” to West Tennessee and made many trips down there through the years. When she returned to Maryland her Southern accent was noticeably thicker. Her favorite foods were catfish, cornbread, and black-eyed peas. As much as she loved Maryland, her heart was and always will be in Tennessee in that little town where life was simpler and everyone knew everyone and there was always a helping hand if needed and a neighbor nearby to bend an ear with.

She is survived by her five children; Karen Nigh, Mark Coury, Scott Coury, Cathy Holland, and Matt Coury, her ten grandchildren; Laura, Dan, Amy, Rachel, Cody, Sally, Tim, Matt, Blake, Brett and one great-grandchild, Colton.

The family will receive friends at the LEMMON FUNERAL HOME OF DULANEY VALLEY INC., 10 W. Padonia Road (at York Road) Timonium, MD 21093 on Saturday, September 1 from 10:30 to 12 pm at which time a funeral service will be celebrated at 12 pm. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.

In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be directed in Mrs. Coury’s memory to St. Jude Childrens Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.