June Beverly Pauker

DUE TO PENDING WEATHER, THE Memorial Service will be conducted on THURSDAY at 1:00 p.m. at the Old Dutch Church, uptown Kingston. Native Kingstonian, choral director, professional soloist and music teacher, June Hull Pauker, died unexpectedly at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany on January 22, 2009. She was 76. Born in Kingston June 24, 1932, she was a daughter of the late Eli and Edna Goodsell Hall. June's mentor and voice coach was Hanus Schimerling of the Prague Opera House. She sang with the New York Choral Society under the direction of Robert DeCormier. She sang at Lincoln Center and Rockefeller and she was a guest soloist at the Austrian Embassy in New York City. Locally she was a soloist at Fair Street Reform Church and Temple Emanuel. For the past thirty five years she has been a piano and voice teaecher at the June Pauker Music Studio in Kingston. In addition to being a church organist for several area churches she was a choral director for the St. Joseph Senior Singers, The Woodstock Singers, and The German Choral Society. Most recently she directed the Kingston Community Singers. June was an avid bridge player and was active in many local bridge clubs. She is survived by her children Pamela Parmelee and her husband Wayne of Kingston, Lisa Monroe and her husband Charles of Marietta, GA, and J. Scott Pauker of New York, NY, four grand-children Jason Parmelee, Chase, Bridget and Nancy Monroe, three great grand children Torin, Kiah and August Parmelee and five half sisters. A Memorial Service will be conducted on Thursday at 1:00 p.m. at the Old Dutch Church, uptown Kingston. Rev. Kenneth L. Walsh will officiate. A reception will follow in Bethany Hall. The family asks in lieu of flowers, please send donations to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital., 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1942.