Robert Vaughn

Obituary of Robert Vaughn

The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Monday, July 25, at Lane Memorial Gardens & Funeral Home in Eugene for Robert Earl Vaughn of Eugene, who died July 19 of age-related causes. He was 93.He was born Oct. 10, 1917, in Vaughn to William and Austa Yingling Vaughn. He married Wilma Hobbs on Feb. 20, 1943, in Eugene. They later divorced, and she died in 1980. He married Betty Mitchell on Feb. 7, 1975, in Vancouver, Wash. She died in April 2010.He graduated from Dorena High School and served in the Army from October 1934 to June 1941. He worked in the lumber industry as a choker setter and retired as a bull buck, a supervisor of tree fallers, in Oregon, Washington and Alaska.Survivors include three daughters, LaWana Lee of Hereford, Ariz., Carla Powell of Washougal, Wash., and Teri Mathisen of Eugene; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.Remembrances to Southwest Washington Hospice.
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