JUNE PRICE

PRICE--June. June Price, scholar and practitioner of psychiatric nursing, beloved by family and friends and known for her extraordinary capacity for empathy and compassion, died peacefully at her home in New York City on May 16. She was 77. June received a BS from the University of Michigan, a MA from the American University of Beirut, and a doctorate from New York University, which she pursued while simultaneously directing the nursing department at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center in Brooklyn. Her doctoral thesis focused on the relationship histories of mothers reported for child abuse. After a long career practicing nursing at various institutions throughout New York City, June taught as an Assistant Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey, and later volunteered for many years as a mental health therapist for the American Red Cross where she provided critical support to victims of disasters, both locally and nationally. Her calm demeanor and caring style helped many people through the worst days of their lives, and after. Even throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, June continued to help all of her clients by calling them weekly. Although June lived and worked primarily in New York City, she also worked in Beirut, Puerto Rico, and London. In addition to her work, her great loves were dance, food, travel, cats, and The New York Times crossword. Her greatest love of all was her late husband, Bob Brieff, whom she married at a ceremony in St. Paul's Chapel of Columbia University in 1979. She spent many years caring for him towards the end of his life so that he could remain in their home. June is survived by many loving family members, including Arleen, Robert, Michael, Allegra, Oliver and Agatha, as well as many loving friends, and her dear cat, Jazz.