Tributes have been paid to a nurse, mother and councillor who served as Lord Mayor of Swansea and campaigned for years against the closure of a hospital emergency department. June Stanton, who has died aged 93, was described by her daughter Judith Twining as devoted and caring. One serving councillor said she was and continued to be "a great inspiration".
Mrs Stanton, nee Hanney, was born in Nelson, Caerphilly, and moved frequently as a child with her mother and father, who was a policeman. She started nursing training in her late teens at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. It was there she met Dr John Stanton. The couple got married on her 21st birthday.
Dr Stanton was then posted to Hanover, Germany, to do his national service as an Army medical officer. The couple had their first child, Nicholas, there before returning to Wales. Dr Stanton worked as a GP in Mayhill while his wife looked after Nicholas and his younger siblings, Judith and David, before resuming her career as a nursing officer at the teacher training college in Townhill and Mount Pleasant.
