Dyhanne Olivia Vaughan Morrow

Mrs. Dyhanne Olivia Vaughan Morrow entered into rest on Wednesday, April 20, 2021 at her residence surrounded by family. A private service will be held with Rev. Harden, officiating. Visitation will be held on Saturday, April 24, 2021 from 10 to 12 p.m.

Dyhanne, who was raised in Jamaica, New York, was always interested in the arts. This intensified when she was sixteen after her parents, Desdemona Wilhelmina and Edward Lafayette, took her to Europe for a month.  Dyhanne’s piano teacher urged her to study to become a concert pianist, but practicing three hours a days was too rigorous for a normal teenage.  Instead Dyhanne directed her piano expertise to the church, (she was raised in New York’s Calvary Baptist Church).  Dyhanne had a variety of jobs ranging from corrections officer to event planner for The
Museum of Natural history; however it was her interests in God, dance, music, and family that sustained her.  In 1965 she married her college sweetheart, James Morrow. The couple had three children, Lynn Denise, Derrick Vaughan and Lisa Renee. After her doctor recommended that she live in a dryer climate, Dyhanne moved to Arizona and subsequently to Georgia where her youngest daughter, Lisa, and Lisa’s children could care for her.  In addition to her three children, Dyhanne is survived by a daughter-in-law Diep Morrow; a son-in Dwayne Smith; two grandsons-in-law, Robert Stewart and Jasper Askew; nine grandchildren, Jasmine, Justin, Joseph, George, Jessica, Jordan, Madison, Colin and Jade; ten great-grandchildren, Nathaniel, Logan, Joseph Jr., Venus, Malachi, Jamari, Ezra, Lia, Levi and Liam; one first cousin, Cynthia Simmons; and one god-daughter, Tarri Sowell.  In Georgia, Dyhanne sought the Word at Spring Grove Baptist Church.

Williams Funeral Home, 2945 Old Tobacco Road, Hephzibah, GA.