Mary Louise Vaughn McQueen

Mary Louise Millsap Vaughn McQueen was born in Judsonia, Arkansas on July 23, 1913 and died January 22, 2010 in Richardson, Texas where she had lived in a nursing home for one and a half years. Mary grew up just south of West Point and at the age of 17 she married John Crockett Vaughn and they raised four children. Crockett died in 1960 and two years later she married Lester McQueen and they were married for twenty-five years before his death in 1987.

Mary was a homemaker and loved canning, making jelly and working in her home and garden. She was of the Baptist faith having accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior in a little community church south of West Point.

Mary leaves behind to cherish her memory three children, Jay Vaughn of West Point, daughters Verlean Smith of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Oma Dee Darais of Richardson, Texas; fourteen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; one sister, Ruth Carson of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

One Daughter, Johnnie Vee LaFerney preceded her in death.

Visitation will be from 6:00 to 7:00 PM on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at Searcy-McEuen Funeral Home. A graveside service will be held 10:00 AM Monday, January 25, at West Point Cemetery.