Vaughan, Sidney K.

Sidney K. Vaughan, 87, of the MethWick Community, formerly of Mount Vernon, went to be with the Lord at Mercy Medical Center, Monday, April 18, 2011. Services: 1 p.m. Thursday at the First Church of the Nazarene by the Rev. Timothy Carter. Inurnment: Mount Vernon Cemetery, at a later date. Friends may call after noon Thursday at the church. Cedar Memorial Westside Chapel is entrusted with arrangements.

Survivors include his wife, Charlotte; five grandchildren; and four great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and two sons, David and Warren Vaughan.

Sidney was born July 31, 1923, in Chicago, to William and Maude Vaughan. He graduated from high school in Glen Ellyn, Ill., received a Bachelor of Science degree in music from VanderCook College in Chicago, and an Master of Science degree in education from Northern Illinois State University. He taught public school band, was a high school counselor in Indiana and was a vocational counselor and audio visual specialist at Cornell College for several years, until he opened a TV sales and service store in Solon, and later in Newhall. He served in the Army from 1943 to 1946, and was a member of the Mount Vernon American Legion Post. Sidney married Charlotte Allaben, daughter of Max and Flora Allaben in Glen Ellyn, Ill., on April 13, 1946.

Early in his career, he had been a railroad agent with the CB&O railroad in Illinois. One of his hobbies was donating and installing telegraph displays at several railroad depot museums, including Ushers Ferry Pioneer Village, where he was a volunteer host. He loved and gave time to his family, his church and to the Gideons.

Memorials may be given to the First Church of the Nazarene or to the Gideons.

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