Biography: June Dudney Runyan Riddick, 91, was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on October 19, 1929 and died on December 6, 2020.  She was preceded in death by her husband Edgar Kader Riddick, Jr., the love of her life, who died on December 10, 1997.
Her parents were Joseph Thurston Runyan and Maxie Sterling Stone Runyan. June is survived by her three children Cinde Leigh Bauer, Dr. Frank Michael Bauer III, and Edgar Kader Riddick III and his wife Lisa Curtis Riddick; three grandchildren, Dr. Thurston Matthew Bauer and his wife Hannah Hodges Bauer, Edgar Kader Riddick IV, and Rebecca McCrea Riddick.  In addition, she also has five great-grandchildren, Maddox Emerson Bauer, Tucker Grey Bauer, Zoe Madison Bauer, Remmington Maverick Bauer and Finn Wylder Bauer.

June attended Randolph-Macon College where she was a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority and Phi Beta Kappa, graduating with honors in 1950 with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Music.  Throughout her life, she loved playing the piano, dogs, especially Dalmatians, poetry, literature, and all aspects of nature, especially gardening. From memory, Mother could recite poetry and play such piano classics as Clair de lune, Malaguena, and the Warsaw Concerto. Our mother lived a long and full life with gratitude, determination, happiness, and gusto.

Memorials can be made to CARE for Animals, Inc., 5516 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock, AR 72207.  A private family burial was held at Roselawn Cemetery.  Arrangements are under the direction of Ruebel Funeral Home, RuebelFuneralHome.com

“So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,  Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed  By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.” William Cullen Bryant.