June Marie Kiehna DeBernardi

June 3, 1934 – July 1, 2022

Age 88 of Montgomery County, Ohio passed away on Friday, July 1, 2022, at Hospice of Dayton.  June was born in Randolph County, Illinois graduated from Southern Illinois University with a degree in Education, completed a first Master's Degree from Miami University, Oxford Ohio in June of 1963, and a second Master's Degree in 1999 from Wright State University.

A tribute to June by Janie Reynolds: If ever there was a person who loved life and learning, it was June DeBernardi. I first heard the term "armchair traveler from June. When she was not physically flying around the globe, she was watching travel shows and reading esoteric fiction set in esoteric lands!

June was a lover of books and as part of her annual Christmas letter, she would list titles she had read for the year. Some years I counted as many as 40 and never less than 30!

June's extensive travels (52 countries and all 50 states) caused her to have a world view of just about everything! She was a philosopher, an economist, a sojourner of beauty and truth.  June DeBernardi will be missed by all who knew here. The space she adorned in this world can never be replaced. It will always be reserved for the June I knew.

She is preceded in death by her husband Joseph Mario DeBernardi and her parents Wilhelm "Bill" Georg Kiehna and Pearl Elizabeth (Bradshaw) Kiehna. June is survived by a number of cousins including Lawrence "Larry" Kiehna, wife Teresa "Teri" (Hagerty) Kiehna and family, James "Jim" Kiehna and wife Elisa (Summerfield) Kiehna, John "Jack" Kiehna and family, Karen A. Kiehna, Robert "Rob" Kiehna, wife Deborah "Debbie" (Henry) Kiehna and family, Melvin Ronald "Ron" Kiehna and family, Dennis Rand Kiehna, wife Joy (McGriff) Kiehna and family, Marc Lynn Kiehna, wife Susan Kiehna and family, Carolee June Haas, husband Robert "Bob" Nisbet, Jr., and family, and  Judith Ann Hass, husband K. Alfredo Salas and family as well as many friends in the Dayton, Ohio, Steeleville, Illinois, and area around the world.