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Mary Ellen (Dabney) Vaughan was born February 12, 1926, in Anadarko, OK to Jesse Clifford and Bessie May (Adams) Dabney. Her siblings were Charles Buford, Jessie Mae, Darla Nan and Lilbern Kent.
As she was growing up, the family lived in Anadarko, Gracemont, Hinton, Centerville, Whitebread and Amber communities in Oklahoma as well as a little while in West Texas. She attended country schools in Centerville and Whitebread, and high school in Gracemont, Amber, and Lawton, receiving her diploma by correspondence through American Public Schools of Chicago, IL after marriage.
She was united in marriage to Ewel Edwin Vaughan on December 24, 1942 in Chickasha, OK. They lived at Lawton, OK, Oxford, Mississippi, and Grenada, Mississippi as Ewel was moved around in the Army. She returned to Chickasha and worked at the Kress store there while Ewel was overseas. Children born to the union were Robie Jane, Daniel Nathan, Timothy Edwin, and Mark Adam. Mary and Ewel had different Christian upbringings, but joined the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) at Chickasha, and continued to be active in that denomination as the family moved to Norman, OK, Grayville, IL, Ardmore, OK, Enid, OK, Nelson, NE, and finally to Seiling, OK where all four children graduated from high school and Mary and Ewel lived the rest of their lives. Survivors are son-in-law Lyle Bensch of Seiling; sons, Danny and wife Diane of Seiling, Tim and wife Cynthia of Houston, TX, and Mark and wife Andrea of Tulsa; sister Darla and husband Gerald Lunsford of Midwest City, OK; and brother Lilbern of Ft. Cobb, OK and many other relatives and friends.
In addition to her parents Mary was preceded in death by her husband of 67 years Ewel in 2009, brother Charles Buford “C.B.” Dabney, daughter Robie in 2011, and sister Jessie and brother-in-law James in 2014.
Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 A.M. at the First Christian Church of Seiling on Wednesday, October 21, 2015 with burial to follow at Brumfield Cemetery. The Family of Mary Ellen have entrusted her care, services, and burial to director Luke Faires and the staff of Redinger Funeral Home.
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