June Kellett-Rollo Obituary

Mrs. June Adelle (Andrews) Kellett-Rollo, age 93, peacefully went to be with her heavenly Father, Saturday, October 11, 2025, at her home in Southport, Florida, in the presence of family. June was born in Chicago, Illinois, January 8, 1932, to James & Nonnie (Crick) Andrews. Her years began during the great depression, yet her parents raised her to be honest, fair, giving, loving and tough. She graduated from Crofton High School with honors in 1950, joined the workforce right away, and got her own apartment. In 1953, she met and married the love of her life, Arthur Wesley Kellett, Jr., who wooed her by helping her choose the next LP for the overhead music at the department store where she worked. In 1962, when she was told that her two-year-old daughter, Jackie, would die from a rare disease, June fell to her knees and told God if He healed her child, she would serve Him in everything she did for the rest of her days. Her daughter Jackie is alive and well to this day. June was an entrepreneur. She started a successful catering business, the first ever Ladies Koinonia Fellowship, and several other ventures, all while raising nine children. She taught her children to love the Lord, to love each other, and to serve others. June & Art Kellett were ordained ministers with Christian International Apostolic Network, and they pastored a community church in Mayer, Arizona. In 1993, the sudden death of her husband Art was devastating. Again, she went to her knees for healing and direction. She turned the church over to the associate pastor and began working as a cook at the Mayer Nutrition Center. She soon became the Executive Director of the Mayer Nutrition Center. When she retired at age 78, she was the Executive Director for Yavapai County Meals on Wheels and Yavapai County Council on Aging; she was on the Arizona Governor's Executive Board for the Council on Aging, a board member in NACOG, and served on several boards to help the aging. During her two decades with Yavapai County, she raised 100's of thousands of dollars in matching grants to build the first ever Mayer Senior Center, make improvements on other centers, and wrote grants for handicap vans and vans for Meals on Wheels that serviced four centers. Anyone who met June immediately found her to be a force to be reckoned with; yet also found her to love them with the same passion she lived her life. June never judged anyone, and she never met a stranger.
June was preceded in death by her parents, James & Nonnie (Crick) Andrews; her husband of 40 years, Arthur Wesley Kellett, Jr.; her second husband of eight years, John Rollo; her son, Phillip Arthur Kellett; two daughters, Patricia Jane (Kellett) Bryan and Dr. Catherine Marie (Kellett) Lovett; her daughter-in-love, Waverly Ann (Fletcher) Kellett; her son-in-love, Christopher Lee Darland; and her four sisters, Miss Barbara Jane Andrews, Frances Imogene "Boots" (Underwood) Jackson, Nora Josephine (Underwood) Huddleston, and Jacqueline Pearl (Andrews) Ferris.
June is survived by seven of her children, James Wesley Kellett (Kristen), Brian Clifford Kellett (Beth), Evelyn Carol Strickland (Michael), Jackie Lynn Darland, Steven Arthur Kellett (Barbara), Jonathan Andrews Kellett, Jodi Lee Locklier (Randall); Son-In-Love, Fentress "Buzzy" King Bryan, Sr.; 29 grandchildren; 49 great-grandchildren; 5 great-great-grandchildren; many loving nieces and nephews; and a host of friends she viewed as family.
Services will be held at Thomas & Sons Funeral Home, 1114 East 1st North Street, Kaufman, TX 75142, on Saturday, October 25, 2025. Viewing at 1:00 p.m., and service at 2:00 p.m., followed by interment at College Mound Cemetery in Terrell, Texas.
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