June Dobbs Butts was born on June 11, 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She was married to Dr. Hugh Butts. She died on May 13, 2019 in Johns Creek, Georgia, USA.
Doctor in family life education, she studied after at the Masters and Johnson Institute and became an university teacher and researcher in this field.
One of the six daughters of John Wesley Dobbs and Irene Ophelia Thompson, she is the youngest sister of opera singer Mattiwilda Dobbs and the aunt of Maynard Jackson. She was a a childhood playmate of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..