June Gay Ruebush
2008
June Gay Ruebush, 87, an artist and homemaker, died of cancer June 14 at her  home in Chevy Chase.
Mrs. Ruebush, an accomplished dressmaker and designer, was an artist-in-residence in textiles at Marymount College in Arlington County during  the late 1960s.
Born in Washington, she graduated from  Roosevelt High School and studied at the Art Students League of New York. During World War II, Mrs.  Ruebush worked in Washington for the British army, leading a team of other artists and drawing weaponry parts.
Mrs. Ruebush and her husband, a veterinarian, formerly owned Ambassador Animal Hospital in Silver Spring and the Aspin Hill Pet Cemetery, the country's  second-oldest pet burial grounds. They sold the cemetery in 1988.
She was a past president of the women's board of the Montgomery County chapter of the American Heart Association and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Survivors include her husband of 65 years, Dr. E. Edgar Ruebush of  Washington; three daughters, Judith Townsend of Camp Hill, Pa., Shari Gay of  Boston and Valerie Grace of Chevy Chase; six grandchildren; and five  great-grandchildren.
-- Patricia Sullivan