Grace A. Vaughan died Wednesday, March 7, 2012, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury. She was the wife of James W. Vaughan. She was born June 21, 1926, in New York City, a daughter of the late Joseph and Margaret (Cavanaugh) Altritt.
Grace was educated in New York State, graduating from St. Barnabas High School and studying art history at SUNY-Purchase. James and Grace were married on November 5, 1949, at Our Lady of Angels Church in Bronx, New York.
Discovering at an early age that she possessed a soft singing voice with perfect pitch, she sang locally. Toward the end of World War II, she joined the USO and toured various base camps. This experience awakened a love of travel, if not wanderlust, eventually bringing a visit to all 50 states. Being of an amenable nature, she was happy to agree with Jim that the most beautiful was Idaho. Aside from the USO, she volunteered for the Red Cross as a nurse’s aide at the garden spot known as Bellevue Hospital. In Heritage Village she joined just about anything that would have her sign up, from musicale to herb garden to renaissance club to bridge club to glass shop. The list was endless. Grace loved and was loved. Her passing has brought us all closer together, and her memory will water the flower of love. As Shakespeare once commented, “Sweet are the uses of adversity.”
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In addition to her loving husband, she is survived by her 5 children, Christopher Vaughan and his wife Diane and Houston, TX, Margaret Vaughan – Williams and her husband Stuart of Houston, TX, Monica McGonigle and her husband Thomas of Fairfax, VA, Marcella Vaughan of Houston, TX, and William D. Vaughan and his wife Kathleen of Bristol; six grandchildren, Katherine, Stephen, and Vincent McGonicle, Joseph and Alexander Vaughan and Stephanie and Kelly Vaughan.
A mass of Christian burial will be held on Monday March 12, 2012 at 10 am at , 910 Main St. South, Southbury. Burial will follow in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, NY.
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Friends may call at Sacred Heart Church’s daily chapel on Sunday March 11, 2012, from 2 to 4 pm and 6 to 8 pm.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her memory to St. Vincent de Paul, 114 Benedict St., Waterbury, Ct 06708 or Little Sisters of the Poor, 1365 Enfield St. Enfield, Ct 06082.
For more information and to send an online condolence, please see www.munsonloveterefuneralhome.com
