Dr. June Warren Lee, 58, died April 4 at her home in Milton, surrounded by her family.
She was the eldest daughter of Rosemary (Leary) Warren, of Dorchester, and the late Earl A. Warren and was a graduate of the Girls Latin School, Brandeis University, and Georgetown University School of Dentistry.
After receiving her dental degree in 1977, she opened Lee Family Dentistry, a joint dental practice in Quincy, with her husband, William. The practice later moved to the Neponset neighborhood of Dorchester, where it has remained for 30 years.
Dr. Lee was an active volunteer and leader in continued dental education and organized dentistry. She was a founding member of the American Association of Functional Orthodontics, or AAFO, and the founder, chairman, and first president of the New England Mastertrack, a structured, five year program which enabled members of the Academy of General Dentistry, or AGD, to earn their masterships. She served as president of the American Association of Women Dentists, or AAWD, president of the Massachusetts AGD, and regional director for the Northeast region of the AGD. She acted as chairman of the South Shore District Dental Society and served as their trustee to the Massachusetts Dental Society, or MDS. She also served in many capacities at the Yankee Dental Congress, the fifth largest dental meeting in the U.S., including general chairmanship in 2004, as well as on the boards of Delta Dental of Massachusetts and the Lucy Hobbs Taylor Foundation of the AAWD. She received masterships from both AGD and AAFO, and was a fellow of the American College of Dentists, the International College of Dentists, the Pierre Fauchard Academy, and the Academy of Dentistry International. She was the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Lucy Hobbs Taylor Award, the highest honor that AAWD can bestow on a woman dentist, and most recently the 2010 Dr. Thomas F. Winkler III Leadership Award from the ACD and a special recognition from the MDS at the 2010 Yankee Dental Congress.
She was an avid traveler, reader, music and art lover, and Boston sport enthusiast. She loved her many pets, especially her cats.
Dr. Lee is survived by her husband, William Lee; her daughter and son-in-law, Jaime and Joshua Gagne, of Cambridge; her son, Daniel Lee, of Milton; her sisters and brothers-in-law, Joy Barron, of Holbrook, Mary and Patrick O’Toole, of Canton, Nancy Marder, of Randolph, Debra and Michael Moloney, of Weymouth, and Linda and Keith Delano, of Billerica; and many nieces and nephews in the United States, Macau and China.
A funeral Mass was celebrated in St. Agatha Church on April 8. Burial was in Milton Cemetery.
Donations may be made to Massachusetts Dental Society Foundation, 2 Willow St., Southborough, MA 01745, www.mdsfoundation.org, or American Liver Foundation, 88 Winchester St., Newton, MA 02461, www.liverfoundation.org.
Arrangements were by the Alfred D. Thomas
Funeral Home.