It is with tremendous sadness that the family of Shirley Ann Vaughan announces her passing after a brief illness, on Saturday, July 4, 2020, at the age of 91 years. She is remembered by her son, Donald Vaughan Jr. and daughter, Sharon Slocum, as well as by her daughter-in-law, Nanette Lavoie-Vaughan, and son-in-law, Raymond Slocum. Shirley was predeceased by her husband, Donald Vaughan Sr., who passed in 2010.
A funeral service in honor of Shirley was held on Thursday, July 9, 2020, at the Dorsey-E. Earl Smith Funeral Home in Lake Worth, Florida. She is interred at Lake Worth Memory Gardens.
Shirley was born on April 23, 1929 in Hornell, New York. She moved to Lake Worth, Florida with her family during World War II, and was a 1947 graduate of Lake Worth High School. She met Donald Sr. through mutual friends and married in 1953. Donald Jr. was born in 1958, and Sharon was born in 1961.
Shirley worked as a secretary for Lake Worth attorney Edwin Lammi, and later as a receptionist for the Lake Worth Herald.
Following retirement, Shirley and Donald Sr. traveled extensively, enjoying exciting vacations to Alaska, the Panama Canal and Australia, where they made many friends.
Shirley was known for her love of cats, and heaped loving affection on every feline she met. Into her later years, a cat was always one of her closest companions.
A wonderful sense of humor was also one of Shirley’s most appreciated traits. Her favorite phrase: “Growing old ain’t for sissies!”
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