June Newland Barnes, 99, passed peacefully to her heavenly home on Wednesday, January 3, 2024.

June was born in Scott County, VA, on November 20, 1924, to the late Hugh and Clara Newland. As a young child, her family moved to the Bloomingdale area of Kingsport, TN where she grew up and graduated from Sullivan County High School. As one of America’s Greatest Generation, she lived through the hardships of the Great Depression and World War II. After attending a local business school, she was employed at the Jewel Box in Kingsport and later became an administrative assistant at the Kingsport Press. It was at the Press where she met and married the love of her life, Paul Barnes, Jr. in December 1950.

After their marriage, June and Paul established residence in Gray, TN. She devoted her life to her family and like many women of her generation became a full-time homemaker and mother. She was an active member of Gray United Methodist Church and cherished the many friends and extended family members she met there. She was a woman of deep and abiding faith and throughout most of her married life she taught Sunday school, first as a children’s Sunday school teacher and later as a teacher in Mary and Martha’s Sunday School class. She was also a member of Women’s Society and the “Apple Butter Gang” at Gray UMC and served on many committees administering the life of the church. She would always encourage her children and other family members as well as friends and acquaintances to “come to church”.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Paul Barnes, Jr. in 2010 with whom she shared almost 60 years of marriage, and her three brothers, Charles, Gordon (Clay) and Rhea Newland.

Those left to cherish her memory include her children David Kim (TR) Barnes and Kristin (Terry) Hampton; grandchildren Kimberley Barnes Kinch, Charles Barnes, Jason Hampton, and Jennifer Hampton; great-grandchildren Lexie Panepinto, Jerry Barnes, Zachary Johnson, Ethan Abramat, and Tristan Abramat; two sisters-in-law, Martha Newland and Gladys Newland; and several nieces and nephews.

June’s family will receive friends from 5:30 to 7:00 pm on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, at Gray United Methodist Church with the funeral service to follow immediately thereafter under the direction of Rev. Aaron Atchley. A graveside service will be conducted the following day, Wednesday, January 10, 2024, at 11:00 am where she will be laid to rest beside her husband at Washington County Memory Gardens.

Pallbearers will be grandsons, great-grandsons, and nephews.

The family would like to thank her caregivers, Judy Keefauver and Mary Broyles, for their loving care during the last several months of her life.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Gray United Methodist Church (www.grayumc.org/give) or St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital (www.stjude.org), one of her favorite charities.

Condolences may be sent to the Barnes family online at www.dillow-taylor.com.

Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Jonesborough, TN 753-3821