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Dellene Sandra Nelson Vaughan, beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother passed away on March 23, 2024 surrounded by family. She was 87 years old.
Dellene was born on December 2, 1936 to parents Winne Dell Childers and Clarence Leonard Nelson in Corpus Christi, Texas. She grew up in C.C., finally graduating from Miller High School in 1954 before getting married. Dellene married Robert Reddington Vaughan, a LCDR in the U.S. Navy, on December 16, 1956 in Corpus Christi. They went on to have three children: Robert Daniel Vaughan, Richard Russell Vaughan, and Michelle Cean Vaughan.
During the early years of their marriage, they moved around U.S. Naval Bases (Whidbey Island, San Diego, and Guam, to name a few) and Dellene found work as a Volunteer Red Cross Nurse and as a model. Dellene and Robert exchanged letters whenever they could not be together, an epistolary record of their love and care for one another. This correspondence continued until Robert’s death in 1967.
Upon her husband’s death, Dellene returned to Corpus Christi to raise their three children by herself while also obtaining her Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Pathology and Master’s in Science in Diagnostics. She is remembered and revered as a Speech Pathologist and Diagnostician in Aransas Pass ISD for over 30 years. After retiring in May of 2004, she moved out to the countryside to enjoy quieter days surrounded by hummingbirds and horses.
She is survived by her younger brother Lloyd Gaddis and her three children: Robert Daniel Vaughan (spouse Norma), Richard Russell Vaughan (spouse Debra), and Michelle Cean Walters (spouse Matthew). She will live on in the fond memories of her grandchildren: Sansuray (spouse Matt), Joshua, Jessica (spouse Andy), Victoria (partner Walker), and Reddington and her great-grandchildren: Christopher, Nate, Vaughan, and Andres. The pets she leaves behind---Sugar, Tom the Cat, and Terry---will miss her dearly.
A private memorial service was held by her children in her residence shortly after her passing.
It is said that there were sounds of a pastoral lullaby, the knighting of “best mom ever”, and a breeze that accompanied her final breath.
To remember her by and by: eat chocolate cake or a homemade grilled cheese, feed your pets a Cheeto, make a cutting and keen joke, play a game of three-handed gin, sit outside and watch hummingbirds hover as they suckle ruby red sugar water, cross-stitch a beloved grandchild or pet, drink a Coca Cola (in a frosty cold bottle of course), bleach your hair a translucent platinum blonde, flip through channels showing Pawn Stars or Flea Market Flip or National Geographic, collect correspondence with care, ride a horse, and say “I love you” often.
Arrangements are under the direction of Holmes-Coffey-Murray Funeral
Home, 121 North 5th Street, Durant, Oklahoma 74701.
www.holmescoffeymurray.com
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