Amy June Meister

Amy June was born Feb. 20, 1924, in Denver, daughter of Judith (Swanson) and Joseph Herbert Rosenberg, a publisher of weekly newspapers. After graduation from West High School, she entered the University of Denver and then transferred to the University of Colorado at Boulder. For several years, she worked in Denver as a journalist. In 1950 she left for Tokyo, having been hired by the U.S. Army Signal Corps to write captions of photographs of the Korean War that would be released to the press. Five decades later, in 2001, photos with her captions, signed "ajr", were displayed at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in an exhibition titled "Living Through the Forgotten War: Portrait of Korea." The photos were lent by the National Archives, Washington, D.C., where they are now preserved.

While in Tokyo, Amy June met a fellow journalist, Robert Meister, and they were married on Nov. 21, 1951. In 1953, the couple moved to Spokane, Wash., and relocated again in 1958 to Buffalo, N.Y. From time to time, Amy June worked for the Modern Living pages of the Buffalo News and wrote feature stories. During the early 1970s, she returned to full-time employment as a copy editor with the Tonawanda News, a suburban daily. She received a Buffalo Newspaper Guild award in 1972 for an article on mental illness, and she served as president of the Frontier Press Club, 1972-73. Between 1977 and 1983, she was editor of Money Managers' Magazine, distributed to customers of the Erie Savings Bank and other banks, reaching a circulation of 150,000 readers.

In 1993, the couple moved to Ivoryton, Conn., and settled in Brookline in 2003.

Robert died in 2012. Survivors include daughters and sons-in-law Maureen Meister and David Feigenbaum of Winchester, Mass., and Shelley Meister and James Batty of Penzance, Cornwall, England; grandchildren Peter and Stephen Feigenbaum and Bailey Batty; and sister Illene Isaacson of Miami Beach, Fla. Also remembered by friends Ziporah and Sanford Ostroy and Ellen Zellner. Donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 30 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701; or FriendshipWorks, 105 Chauncy Street, Ste. 801

Boston, MA 02111.