1924
Carmen
2012
Carmen Dean Vaughan
December 10, 1924 — October 30, 2012
AMARILLO, Texas. — Mrs. Carmen Day Vaughan, 87, of Amarillo died October 30, 2012 after a brief illness.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Park Place Towers Chapel with Jerry Bell, Park Central Chaplain, officiating. A private burial service for the family members will be in Llano Cemetery in Amarillo. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia.
Mrs. Vaughan was born Dec. 10, 1924, in Claude, Texas as the tenth child to the Reverend William Alvin Hitchcock and Flora Lee Peninger Hitchcock. Her father was a Methodist minister until his retirement in 1945 and Carmen attended Texas Panhandle schools in his served pastorates including Claude, Throckmorton, Stratford, Spearman, Miami, Sudan and Hale Center, Texas.
Christian music, love of family and love of country were central to Carmen’s life, and she played at her father’s church services as a young girl. Her music ministry carried on throughout her life and she played for her classes as a member of St. Paul’s Methodist Church and at Vespers Services at Park Place Towers. She was retired from Traveler’s Insurance Company as a secretary in the Amarillo office.
She was preceded in death by her parents; Lawrence E. Day, Sr. (first husband and WWII veteran); Dewitt Mason (“Buster”) Vaughan (second husband and WWII veteran and retired from Amarillo National Bank); and her siblings; Clarence Hitchcock, Eula Mae Brummett Dodge, Viola Capell Sellars, Gracylee Walker, Maudie Flores, Marjorie Cleavinger, Ruth Womack Jones, Candler Hitchcock and Floryne Nelson.
Survivors include her son, Lawrence E. (“Larry”) Day, Jr. of Madison, Alabama; a grandson, Travis E. Day at the University of Alabama, a granddaughter, Lesley Lathem of Dallas, Texas, nineteen nieces and nephews and their children.
The family suggests memorials be made to the American Cancer Society, 3915 S. Bell, Amarillo, TX 79109.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Park Place Towers Chapel with Jerry Bell, Park Central Chaplain, officiating. A private burial service for the family members will be in Llano Cemetery in Amarillo. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia.
Mrs. Vaughan was born Dec. 10, 1924, in Claude, Texas as the tenth child to the Reverend William Alvin Hitchcock and Flora Lee Peninger Hitchcock. Her father was a Methodist minister until his retirement in 1945 and Carmen attended Texas Panhandle schools in his served pastorates including Claude, Throckmorton, Stratford, Spearman, Miami, Sudan and Hale Center, Texas.
Christian music, love of family and love of country were central to Carmen’s life, and she played at her father’s church services as a young girl. Her music ministry carried on throughout her life and she played for her classes as a member of St. Paul’s Methodist Church and at Vespers Services at Park Place Towers. She was retired from Traveler’s Insurance Company as a secretary in the Amarillo office.
She was preceded in death by her parents; Lawrence E. Day, Sr. (first husband and WWII veteran); Dewitt Mason (“Buster”) Vaughan (second husband and WWII veteran and retired from Amarillo National Bank); and her siblings; Clarence Hitchcock, Eula Mae Brummett Dodge, Viola Capell Sellars, Gracylee Walker, Maudie Flores, Marjorie Cleavinger, Ruth Womack Jones, Candler Hitchcock and Floryne Nelson.
Survivors include her son, Lawrence E. (“Larry”) Day, Jr. of Madison, Alabama; a grandson, Travis E. Day at the University of Alabama, a granddaughter, Lesley Lathem of Dallas, Texas, nineteen nieces and nephews and their children.
The family suggests memorials be made to the American Cancer Society, 3915 S. Bell, Amarillo, TX 79109.
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