June Lockhart

June Lockhart June 25 1925 October 23 2025 was an American actress beginning a film career in the 1930s and 1940s in films such as A Christmas Carol and Meet Me in St Louis She appeared primarily in 1950s and 1960s television and with performances on stage and in film On two television series Lassie and Lost in Space she played mother roles Lockhart also portrayed Dr Janet Craig on the CBS television sitcom Petticoat Junction 196870 She was a twotime Emmy Award nominee and a Tony Award winner With a career spanning nearly 90 years Lockhart was one of the last surviving actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood In 1951 Lockhart married John F Maloney They had two daughters Anne Kathleen and June Elizabeth The couple divorced in 1959 She married architect John Lindsay that same year but they divorced in October 1970 and she never remarried A Roman Catholic Lockhart and her daughter Anne and actress Kay Lenz met Pope John Paul II in 1985 Lockhart had a lifelong fascination with American presidential candidates and the medias coverage of them Her friend reporter Merriman Smith arranged for her to travel with both majorparty candidates Dwight D Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson during the 1956 presidential election and again with both campaigns in the 1960 election Between 1957 and 2004 Lockhart attended many presidential briefings Although a child of the Greatest Generation Lockhart embraced rock music and listened to emerging rock bands In an interview her Lost in Space costar Bill Mumy stated that she took Angela Cartwright and him to the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in Hollywood to hang out with The Allman Brothers Band Appearing on The Virginia Graham Show in 1970 with Art Metrano and LGBT cleric Troy Perry Lockhart confronted Graham about her moralizing tone toward gay people Lockhart turned 100 on June 25 2025 She died of natural causes at her home in Santa Monica California on October 23 2025 CLR biography excerpted from Wikipedia