June 5, 1933-November 27, 2021
Alva June Daily, known to family and friends as June, died November 27 at the home of her daughter Jennifer in Austin, at the age of 88. June was a longtime resident of Fort Worth and Edgecliff Village. After she and her husband Paul moved to Austin in 2013, she resided at Greenridge and The Meadows at Buckner Village, and later at Parsons House.
June was born June 5, 1933 in Carroll Springs, Texas, the second of three children of Ather Alvie and Eunice Roberta (Fisher) Evans. She grew up in the Athens area and graduated from Athens High School in 1951, then moved to Fort Worth, where she lived with her older sister, Corkey, and her brother-in-law Royce Benson and worked as a file clerk. She met her future husband, Paul Daily, on a blind date engineered by an older co-worker whose husband had taken a promising Airman 1st Class under his wing. On June 28, 1952, June became an Air Force wife, and less than a year later she became a mother. Paul and June had 3 daughters, Carol, Melinda, and Jennifer.
Though Air Force life took Paul and June to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Michigan, and Louisiana, June remained a country girl at heart and never truly felt at home outside Texas. Wherever she was, she devoted herself to her family and home. She took pleasure in sewing, gardening, fishing, and cooking, where she excelled at simple, flavorful homestyle Southern food and regularly put up canned and frozen fruits and vegetables, jellies, and preserves.
Upon Paul’s retirement from the Air Force in 1974, he and June returned permanently to their home in Edgecliff Village. They purchased a small farm near Athens that had been passed down in June’s family, and spent many happy weekends building a little house, kitchen gardening, and establishing a peach orchard.
June is survived by her daughters Carol Manning, Melinda Walker, and Jennifer Daily; grandchildren Brian Smith, Kimberly Smith, and Neal Manning; and great-granddaughters Arabella and Ariadne Manning-Pedraza and Harlow Brock.
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