June Alice Stubbs

COLUMBIA — June Alice Stubbs, a former instructor at Stephen’s College, died Thursday, May 1, 2008. She was 90.
She was born April 14, 1918, in Lincoln, Neb., to Harry Lee and Willie Lee Cochran Bruce.
Mrs. Stubbs graduated from Clinton High School in Clinton, Okla., in 1935 and earned a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern Institute of Technology, now Southwestern State University, in Weatherford, Okla., in 1938.
Mrs. Stubbs taught school until she joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps in Washington, D.C., and later joined the Women’s Army Corps in 1942. She served four years in the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories in New Jersey as an officer and was discharged in 1946.
Mrs. Stubbs returned to teach at Southwestern State University and then attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin — Madison.
After graduating in 1948, she taught at Stephen’s College where she met her husband, Francis L. Stubbs. They married on June 5, 1949, in Columbia.
Mrs. Stubbs was a charter member of Broadway Christian Church where she was a deaconess and a member of the first church board.
She had an interest in family and genealogy, and she was a member of MU’s Fortnightly Club for 30 years, where she served as a state officer and regent of the Columbia chapter. She was also a member of Daughters of the American Revolution — John Corbin Chapter, Daughters of the American Colonists, Dames of the Court of Honor, Daughters of Colonial Wars, Huguenot Society, The Virginia Genealogical Society, The Bruce Society of America, Historic Buckingham, Inc. of Virginia, Harris Hunters, Lile-Lyle Family Association, State Historical Society of Missouri, Genealogical Society of Central Missouri, and Mid-MO Doll Club.
She also volunteered at the Truman Veterans Hospital.
Mrs. Stubbs published three family histories: “Alexander Bruce of Southside Virginia and Some of His Descendants”; “Susan Alice Kennedy-Edwards-Cochran her Ancestors-Kin-Descendants”; and “Harpers of Virginia and Missouri.”
Mrs. Stubbs is survived by three sons, Edward Bruce Stubbs of Columbia, Alan Bradley Stubbs of Ashland, and Robert Eric Stubbs of Longmont, Colo.; one sister, Joyce Griffin of Costa Mesa, Calif.; three grandsons; two granddaughters; one great-granddaughter; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Her husband and two siblings, Dorthy Dibler Woolbert and H. Max Bruce, died earlier.
Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday at Memorial Funeral Home. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Memorial Funeral Home with burial to follow at Memorial Park Cemetery, 1217 Business Loop 70 W. Memorial contributions may be sent to Truman Veterans Hospital, 800 Hospital Drive, Columbia, MO 65201.
Tributes can be left online at www.memorialfuneralhomeandcemetery.com.

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-- MEGAN BECWAR