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Obituary: Florence June Wylie

June F. Wylie passed away on Sept. 1. She was born Florence June Foster in Locust Valley, N.Y. on June 1, 1921. June attended school in Locust Valley and graduated from Glen Cove High School in 1938.

During World War II, she enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served at Naval Headquarters on Church Street in New York City until the end of the war. She returned to Glen Cove and married the late James W. Wylie in December 1945.

She was employed by Columbia Ribbon & Carbon in Glen Cove until it closed and later Cigna Insurance Company.

June is survived by her sister Eva MacKinnon and brother Edward Foster and his wife Lois. She was predeceased by her sister Madeleine Foster.

Also survived by her son James F. Wylie and his wife Lynn; and daughter Madeline Wylie Kaplan and her husband Bruce; grandchildren Lauren Morris, Brian Kaplan, Mark Kaplan, Jill Wylie and Erin Wylie; and great-grandchildren Mackenzie and James Morris.

The longest living member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Glen Cove, June was an avid reader, gardener and cook and an adored grandmother.