June Kaiser1 min read

June Kaiser

1924 — Dec. 8, 2021

June Marie Northrop Kaiser, 97, died Dec. 8.

She received her pilot license at age 19 and was a lifelong member of The 99’s women’s pilot organization. She worked in high school libraries in the Phoenix area. After retirement she lived in Sedona. She enjoyed traveling, skiing and hiking. She spent the last ten years in Santa Barbara, Calif., and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
In lieu of flowers, donations are suggested to the Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund, helping women succeed in aviation and aerospace.

Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."

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