june lockhartone of television’s most beloved matriarchs, has died at the age of 100. According to her family, Lockhart passed away peacefully at her home in Santa Monica, California, on October 23, 2025, surrounded by her daughter. june elizabeth and granddaughter christina.
The Tony Award-winning actress was best known for her role as Ruth Martin in Girl and Maureen Robinson in Lost in spacemaking her a timeless symbol of warmth, wit and grace. Following the news, tributes poured in from his former co-stars. Angela Cartwrightwho played his daughter Penny in Lost in spacewrote: “So smart, fast and funny: she filled her 100 years with curiosity, laughter and rock ‘n’ roll.” Meanwhile, Girl actor jon provost He remembered her as “another icon of film and television,” and added in his statement“June kept in touch all these years later Girl. I love you, June. “I will miss you very much.”
Find out more about her below.
June Lockhart made her stage debut as a child actress
Born in New York City on June 25, 1925, to actor parents. Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhartwent on stage at the age of 8 in a production of Peter Ibbetson at the Metropolitan Opera. A few years later he made his film debut in A Christmas story (1938), acting with his parents.
“I thought my parents were wonderful as the Cratchits and it was so fun to see a movie being made,” Lockhart told them. Ames Grandstand in 2014. “I loved the Victorian costumes.”
She played the beloved TV mom on Girl
Lockhart joined Girl in 1958, playing Ruth Martin, Timmy Martin’s kind and dependent mother, for six years.
He won a Tony Award before finding television fame
Lockhart won a Tony Award in 1948 for Outstanding Performance by a Newcomer Actor for his role in For love or money.
He married twice and had two daughters.
Lockhart’s personal life included two marriages. she got married for the first time Dr. John F. Maloney in 1951 and they had two daughters, Ana Kathleen and June Isabel. They divorced in 1959. That same year she married an architect. John Lindsay; They later divorced in 1970.
He earned two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Lockhart’s contribution to both film and television was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for films and one for television.