1905
Mary
2006
Mary Vaughan
October 15, 1905 — September 1, 2006
Mary P. Vaughan, 100, of Bolivar, died Friday morning, September 1, 2006 at Bolivar General Hospital.
The widow of William Roy Vaughan, who died March 3, 1980, she was a Hardeman County school teacher for 40 years. Mrs. Vaughan was born October 15, 1905 in Middleton, daughter of the late Joe and Sarah Kirk Pulse and lived here all of her life. She graduated from Middleton High School and received her degree from the University of Memphis with her son, Billy. She portrayed “Minnie Pearl†in the Hardeman County production of "Hee-Haw" from 1980-95 and was a member of Walnut Grove Baptist Church where she taught Sunday school for 50 years.
Services were 1 p.m. Sunday, September 3, 2006 at Shackelford Funeral Directors Bolivar chapel with Bertie Moore and Mike Delisle officiating. Burial was in Walnut Grove Cemetery.
Survivors include two daughters, Brenda Jackson and her husband, W.D., of Bolivar and Sara Gary and her husband, David, of Jonesboro; two sons, Bobby Vaughan and his wife, Jimmie, of Bolivar and Joseph Vaughan and his wife, Bertha, of Bolivar; one sister, Leone Casey Mauney of Pocahontas; daughter-in-law, Betty Vaughan; nine grandchildren, Richard, Kevin, Steve, Phillip, Greg and Jason Vaughan, Keith and Michael Jackson, Dax Greer and eighteen great grandchildren. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by one son, Billy; three brothers, Jim, Alec and Frank “Doc†Pulse and two sisters, Lillian Mills and Ruby Cartwright.
The widow of William Roy Vaughan, who died March 3, 1980, she was a Hardeman County school teacher for 40 years. Mrs. Vaughan was born October 15, 1905 in Middleton, daughter of the late Joe and Sarah Kirk Pulse and lived here all of her life. She graduated from Middleton High School and received her degree from the University of Memphis with her son, Billy. She portrayed “Minnie Pearl†in the Hardeman County production of "Hee-Haw" from 1980-95 and was a member of Walnut Grove Baptist Church where she taught Sunday school for 50 years.
Services were 1 p.m. Sunday, September 3, 2006 at Shackelford Funeral Directors Bolivar chapel with Bertie Moore and Mike Delisle officiating. Burial was in Walnut Grove Cemetery.
Survivors include two daughters, Brenda Jackson and her husband, W.D., of Bolivar and Sara Gary and her husband, David, of Jonesboro; two sons, Bobby Vaughan and his wife, Jimmie, of Bolivar and Joseph Vaughan and his wife, Bertha, of Bolivar; one sister, Leone Casey Mauney of Pocahontas; daughter-in-law, Betty Vaughan; nine grandchildren, Richard, Kevin, Steve, Phillip, Greg and Jason Vaughan, Keith and Michael Jackson, Dax Greer and eighteen great grandchildren. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by one son, Billy; three brothers, Jim, Alec and Frank “Doc†Pulse and two sisters, Lillian Mills and Ruby Cartwright.
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