Born: 23 March 1930 in Lygon Street, Nth Carlton
Mother: Lillian Bracchi (nee Davis) Father: Charles Bracchi
Never married
Sibling: David Gye

June is a half sister to David Gye and her father's family ran the Bracchi Icecream Factory in Cumberland Place. The Bracchi's were friends and neighbours with the Hayes family and with the McDonald family and Lillian and Charlie lived in a house owned by Robert Gye while they were married. Not long after Charlie died of Bright's disease in 1931, Lillian and Robert began a relationship and June was effectively raised as Robert's daughter during her childhood. June was also close to Johnny, one of Robert's sons from his first marriage.

School: Clifton Hill Primary School; East Coburg Primary School; Coburg High School
1945 Scholarship to Melbourne Technical Business School (old RMIT)
1947 20th Century Fox - secretary Various other secretarial positions including Noel Patton Advertising
1954 (22 June)Travelled (hitchhiked) around Europe
1955 Worked at Consolidated Press (secretary to Donald Horne)
1956 Worked at The Argus
1957 - 84 work at GTV9 Melbourne Secretary to Tom Miller (producer of IMT) then 1985 Freelance work
1989-90 worked with Peter Faiman
1992 worked with Daryl Somers

June is an extraordinary woman, far ahead of her time. While others of her generation were settling into 1950's domestic comfort, June was hitchhiking around Europe. When television began in Australia in 1956, June, who had been working at the Argus, moved over and was soon trained as a Director's Assistant. She had a long and distinguished career at Channel 9, working on many of the shows that would be at the heart of Australian television history - IMT, The Graham Kennedy Show, The Don Lane Show, The Bert Newton Show and Hey Hey It's Saturday. She met and mixed with the glitteratti and formed strong friendships with the luminaries of Australian television.

June was never an ardent feminist. And yet she has lived the kind of life that many feminists have aspired to - self-directed, independent, in control of her own destiny. To her niece and nephews, she has been a figure not unlike Auntie Mame - glamourous, interesting, exciting and generous.