Evelyn H Vaughn

NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS - Evelyn H. (Doris) Vaughn, age 99, was promoted into the presence of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on July 15, 2022, and greeted by family and friends who preceded her to eternal life with Jesus.

Funeral Service for Evelyn will be at 1:30 p.m., July 21, 2022, at Shannon Funeral Home in North Richland Hills. Family will receive friends from 12:30-1:30 p.m., July 21, 2022, at the Funeral Home. Private family only graveside service at Bluebonnet Hills Cemetery in Colleyville, Texas.

Evelyn was born March 4, 1923, to G.W. and Beulah (Deyo) Hausman in Brownsville, Texas, and graduated from Beeville High School as Duchess to the Queen’s Court at then Texas A&I College in Kingsville, Texas where she studied music and met the love of her life and married Prentis I. Vaughn. They moved to Uvalde, Texas in 1941 where Prentis was flight instructor for Army Air Corps Cadets during WWII. Evelyn served as “Home Away Mom” to the young cadets and entertained them and the surrounding community with her home-cooked meals and her amazing musical abilities on the piano, accordion, and her voice. After the war, she and Prentis moved to Fort Worth, Texas where Prentis flew for American Airlines, retiring as senior Captain after a 29-year career and Evelyn providing a loving home and supportive Mom for their four children. She and Prentis moved from Vaughn Acres in Euless, Texas in 1970 to their retirement Triple V Ranch home in Wise County, Texas. In 1988 Evelyn moved to North Richland Hills several years after the death of Prentis, where she became an active member of North Richland Hills Baptist Church and remained a faithful supporter of that ministry to the end of her days.

Evelyn was an accomplished pianist who specialized in playing “Ragtime” numbers that dazzled audiences for over 80 years at churches, nursing homes, retirement homes and other community venues and service organizations. Her tenure of community volunteer musical service as pianist/organist and at times choir director spanned several decades and included 15 years (1957-72) at the historic Minters Chapel Methodist Church (formerly located on DFW Airport), 13 years (1975-88) at the Rhome First Baptist Church, and 12 years (1990-2002) at the North Richland Hills Baptist Church as Sr. Adult Choir and Nursing Home Ministry Pianist.

Evelyn was also widely known for her award-winning delicious pecan pies, often giving many away for charitable causes, to neighbors and to many family members and friends. It is estimated that she made hundreds of these pies and many other types over the course of her lifetime.

Family members preceding her to eternal life with Jesus Christ were her husband Prentis, her parents and her sister, B.G. Ginsburg.

Those family members left behind to cherish her loving memory are 5 generations of her children Barbara White and husband Ben, Richard (Rick) Vaughn and wife Vicki, Beverly Taylor and husband Alvin, and Gregory (Greg) Vaughn and wife Mary Ann, 11 Grandchildren, 22 Great Grandchildren, 1 Great-Great Grandchild, nephew Charles Davis and wife Elizabeth, niece Cathy Jarvis and husband John, and nephew Robert Ginsburg and son Bobby. Also left behind is one notoriously delectable pecan pie recipe for generations to savor and pass on for others to enjoy.

Evelyn had an undying love and service to her/our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and left a monumental legacy of that to her family and friends, wishing that “all would come to a saving knowledge and enduring personal relationship and faith in Jesus Christ as “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6)

In lieu of flowers donations can be made in her memory to North Richland Hills Baptist Church (Together Plus), to www.HonorableCharacter.com , or to a charity of choice.