Mattie Belle McCall Vaughan

Mattie Belle McCall Vaughan of Dothan, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, went home to be with her Lord on Jan. 16, 2006.

Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, in the chapel of Pittman Funeral Home in Geneva with Dr. Mike Shirah officiating. Burial will follow in Providence Methodist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home tonight from 6 to 8.

Mattie was born Oct. 4, 1921, in Geneva, to the late Irvin and Willie McCall. She married Frank Vaughan on April 15, 1941, and lived in many places in the United States and in Denmark. She and Frank lived in Orange Park, Fla., for more than 20 years before moving to Fort Worth in 1998 and then to Dothan in March 2005. She was active in her church and in the Order of the Eastern Star. She served in various capacities in Eastern Star including Grand Worthy Matron in Orange Park. She led a full and productive life and will be missed by her family and friends. She is still living with us in our hearts and has simply changed her address to heaven. Praise God!

She was preceded in death by her parents; sisters, Ollie Mae Jones, Fannie Anderson and Onyx Brown; brothers, James McCall and Roland McCall.

She is survived by her husband, Frank Vaughan of Dothan; son and his wife, Wayne and Carolyn Vaughan of Fort Worth, Texas; daughter, Penelope "Penny" Davis of Arlington, Texas; brother, Horace McCall of Hartford; sisters, Ruth Richards of Scottsboro and Allene Baker of Hartford. Mattie's sister-in-law, Jeanette Vaughan of Geneva, was her sister in heart and spirit. Mattie has four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, as well as many nieces and nephews.

Pittman Funeral Home in Geneva, (334) 684-2600, is in charge of arrangements.