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