When Did June Carter Cash Die? Everything About Johnny Cash’s Wife
June Carter Cash wedded three times before she died and from each union, she had a child. In 1952, she tied the knot with Carl Smith, a fellow country singer. The two met when June and her sisters did a background vocal to one of his songs. The marriage produced one daughter – Rebecca Carlene Smith, popularly known as Carlene Carter. Their marriage lasted only for five years before it fell apart.
After her divorce, June Carter became the wife of Edwin Nix in 1957. Ed was a Nashville policeman and their marriage produced one child as well, a daughter – Rosanna, otherwise known as Rosie. In 1966, she belatedly received divorce papers from Ed.
Same 1966, she met Johnny Cash.
Johnny was an addict when she met him and she was instrumental to the drug-free life her third husband Johnny Cash embraced. It was believed that it was what saved his life. The two got married in 1968, and they had their son – John Carter Cash in 1970.
Johnny had two daughters from his previous marriage – Kathy and Tara. June was a doting and devoted stepmother to Cash’s children. Her husband barely lasted up to six months after her death as he passed on, in September 2003.
