June Marie Mathews
August 15, 1942 – February 8, 2000

SNOHOMISH, Wash. – Great Falls native June Marie (Johns) Mathews, 57, died Feb. 8 in an auto accident in Shohomish, Wash.

Services and burial took place Feb. 12 in Everett, Wash. Memorials are suggested to the Snohomish County 4-H Horse Program in Everett; Everett Chorale or Everett First Presbyterian Church.

She was born Aug. 15, 1942, in Great Falls. She attended schools in Pendroy, Whitefish and Sunburst, graduating from Sunburst High School.

She attended the University of Montana at Missoula for a year and then married James Frederick Cox Jr. in 1961. They moved to the Seattle area, where her husband was a pilot for Northwest Airlines. He died in a plane crash in 1974.

She later married Lee Mathews and they had lived in Snohomish County for the past several years.

She owned and managed Camelot Farms stables, where she trained horses and gave riding lessons. She also drove a bus for the Northshore School District for six years.

She was a 4-H leader of Snohomish County Shakey Cinches Horse Club for more than 10 years, a member of the Everett First Presbyterian Church and Chancel Choir, and a member and music librarian of the Everett Chorale.

She enjoyed singing and the opera.

Survivors include her husband of Snohomish; three daughters, Joy Taylor of Tacoma, Wash., Jean Cox of Seattle and Jill laRosa of Marysville, Wash.; a son, Scott James Cox of Everett; two stepchildren, Brian K. Mathews of Seattle and Melissa Roe of Billings; her parents, Roy and Illean Johns of Florence; two sisters, Linda Walt of Missoula and Eunice McClure of Polson; and six grandchildren.