(Published in the Castro County News, 56th Year- No. 32, Dimmitt, Texas, Thursday, May 5, 1983, Page 9)
Funeral services were conducted in Dimmitt Saturday afternoon for Danny Karl Vaughan, 25; his wife, Sharla Denece Burrous Vaughan, 24; and their four-week-old son, Adam Karl.
They died in a truck accident last Wednesday night near Pagosa Springs, Colo.
Last rites were held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the First Baptist Church. Officiating were Rev. Jimmy Nunn, pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Earth, and Ronnie Parker, former minister of the Fourth and Bedford Church of Christ in Dimmitt.
Burial followed in West Lawn Memorial Park, under the direction of Parsons Funeral Home.
Mr. Vaughan was born Nov. 17, 1957, in Friona, while his family was farming land west of the Flagg community. He moved with his family to southeastern Colorado when he was 2 years old, and returned to Castro County in 1968. He had lived in the Dimmitt and Earth areas ever since.
He was a member of Dimmitt High School’s state championship basketball team in 1975, and was an all-regional player his senior year, 1976. He also was a member of the high school band and National Honor Society.
He started farming near Earth in 1977, and the following year his family purchased D&L Fertilizer and Grain in Earth, which he helped operate.
Mrs. Vaughan was born Feb. 8, 1959, in Clovis, and moved with her family to Dimmitt from Tulia in 1969, when she was in the fourth grade.
While attending Dimmitt High School, she was a twirler three years with the Bobcat Band, was a class officer and beauty award winner, and was a member of the All-Region Band. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church.
Following her high school graduation, the couple married in August 1977 in Dimmitt. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan had lived in Earth since their marriage.
Their first child, Amber, was born in 1981, Adam Karl was born last March 31 in Central Plains Regional Hospital, Plainview.
Their daughter, Amber, 2 ½, survives them.
Survivors in Mr. Vaughan’s family are his parents, Loyd and Dorothy Vaughan of Dimmitt; two brothers, Gene of Fort Collins, Colo., and Kent of Earth; and his grandmother, Essie Vaughan of Dimmitt.
Survivors in Mrs. Vaughan’s family are her parents, Reeford and Betty Burrous of Dumas; two sisters, Shanee Lust and Sherri Matthews, both of Dimmitt; and her grandmother, Mattie Stovall of Clovis.
Pallbearers at the funeral services Saturday were Jim Birdwell, Layne Myatt, Clifford Daniel, Bryan Hamilton, Steve Myatt, Kyle Touchstone, Randy Bills, Jim Wright, Rick Wright, Kurt Wales, Darrell Buckley and Dudley Wooten.
Honorary pallbearers were Kenneth Cleveland and members of Dimmitt High School’s boys’ basketball team.
Funds for a memorial scholarship for Amber Vaughan have been established at the First State Bank of Dimmitt and the Citizens State Bank of Earth.
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(Published in The Castro County News,56th Year-No. 32, Dimmitt, Texas, Thursday, May 5, 1983, Page 1,14)
A tragic truck accident on the Continental Divide in southwestern Colorado last Wednesday night took the lives of three members of a young area family.
Danny Vaughan, 25, his wife, Sharla, 24, and their four-week-old son, Adam, died when the semi-trailer truck in which they were riding ran off the highway along Wolf Creek Pass and plunged more than 1,000 feet to the valley floor below.
Their 2 ½-year-old daughter, Amber, was thrown from the truck shortly after it left the highway and escaped with a broken collar bone and abrasions. She was treated at a clinic in nearby Pagosa Springs.
Vaughan’s oldest brother, Gene, a realtor at Fort Collins, flew the injured girl home from Pagosa Springs, bringing her to her grandparents, Loyd and Dorothy Vaughan of Dimmitt.
Wolf Creek Pass, with an elevation of 10,850 ft., is on US Highway 160, approximately 25 miles north of Pagosa Springs.
Mineral County Deputy Sheriff Gary Parsons, who investigated the fatal accident, said Vaughan was driving south, along the west side of the pass, when the vehicle went out of control about sundown Wednesday. The truck was carrying a load of rabbit feed in pellet form, the officer reported.
Parsons said the truck skidded 172 feet, rolled onto its right side, then slid 80 feet through a guard rail and was airborne another 70 feet before it hit a large rock formation below. The tractor and trailer tore apart upon impact and the trailer came to rest at the rock formation, while the tractor careened down the steep embankment all the way to the valley floor, where it came to rest on its wheels, the Colorado officer said.
The Vaughans’ infant son was thrown from the cab about halfway down the slope.
Members of Mounted Ranger Troop F – a rescue and ambulance service made up of Pagosa Springs volunteers – retrieved Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan’s bodies about 4:30 a.m. Thursday, then searched the rest of the night before finding the baby’s body about 7:30 p.m. They took the bodies to Chambers and Sharp Funeral Home in Monte Vista, 70 miles north of the pass.
The bodies were transported back to Dimmitt, where joint funeral services were held Saturday at 2 p.m. in the First Baptist Church. The largest church in town was filled to capacity, with almost 200 seated in the separate Fellowhip [sic] Hall. Members of at least four Dimmitt churches took part in the services.
Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan both grew up in Dimmitt and graduated from Dimmitt High School – he in 1976 and she in 1977.
Vaughan was a member of Dimmitt High School’s state championship boys’ basketball team in 1975 and was an all-regional player in 1976. He also was a member of the Bobcat Band and the National Honor Society.
After his graduation, he farmed near Earth, and later formed a partnership with his father and brother, Kent, in D&L Fertilizer and Grain in Earth. He was making a truck run for the family business when the fatal accident occurred.
Mrs. Vaughan, the former Sharla Burrous, was the daughter of Reeford and Betty Burrous, now of Dumas. She was a twirler three years with the Bobcat Band, an all-region band performer, a class officer and beauty award winner.
The couple were married in August 1977 in Dimmitt, and established their home in Earth.
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Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Danny Karl Vaughan
Date of Birth: 17 Nov 1957
Gender: Male
Birth County: Parmer
Father's name: James Loyd Vaughan
Mother's name: Dorothy Willene Jones
Roll Number: 1957_0016
Texas, Marriage Index, 1824-2014
Name: Danny K Vaughan
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Birth Year: abt 1958
Marriage Date: 20 Aug 1977
Marriage Place: Castro, Texas, USA
Spouse: Sharla D Burrous
Spouse Gender: Female
Spouse Age: 18
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Danny Karl Vaughan
[Danny Vaughan]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 17 Nov 1957
Birth Place: Friona Parme, Texas
Death Date: Apr 1983
Notes: 04 Feb 1974: Name listed as DANNY KARL VAUGHAN; 05 Jan 1988: Name listed as DANNY VAUGHAN
Funeral services were conducted in Dimmitt Saturday afternoon for Danny Karl Vaughan, 25; his wife, Sharla Denece Burrous Vaughan, 24; and their four-week-old son, Adam Karl.
They died in a truck accident last Wednesday night near Pagosa Springs, Colo.
Last rites were held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the First Baptist Church. Officiating were Rev. Jimmy Nunn, pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Earth, and Ronnie Parker, former minister of the Fourth and Bedford Church of Christ in Dimmitt.
Burial followed in West Lawn Memorial Park, under the direction of Parsons Funeral Home.
Mr. Vaughan was born Nov. 17, 1957, in Friona, while his family was farming land west of the Flagg community. He moved with his family to southeastern Colorado when he was 2 years old, and returned to Castro County in 1968. He had lived in the Dimmitt and Earth areas ever since.
He was a member of Dimmitt High School’s state championship basketball team in 1975, and was an all-regional player his senior year, 1976. He also was a member of the high school band and National Honor Society.
He started farming near Earth in 1977, and the following year his family purchased D&L Fertilizer and Grain in Earth, which he helped operate.
Mrs. Vaughan was born Feb. 8, 1959, in Clovis, and moved with her family to Dimmitt from Tulia in 1969, when she was in the fourth grade.
While attending Dimmitt High School, she was a twirler three years with the Bobcat Band, was a class officer and beauty award winner, and was a member of the All-Region Band. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church.
Following her high school graduation, the couple married in August 1977 in Dimmitt. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan had lived in Earth since their marriage.
Their first child, Amber, was born in 1981, Adam Karl was born last March 31 in Central Plains Regional Hospital, Plainview.
Their daughter, Amber, 2 ½, survives them.
Survivors in Mr. Vaughan’s family are his parents, Loyd and Dorothy Vaughan of Dimmitt; two brothers, Gene of Fort Collins, Colo., and Kent of Earth; and his grandmother, Essie Vaughan of Dimmitt.
Survivors in Mrs. Vaughan’s family are her parents, Reeford and Betty Burrous of Dumas; two sisters, Shanee Lust and Sherri Matthews, both of Dimmitt; and her grandmother, Mattie Stovall of Clovis.
Pallbearers at the funeral services Saturday were Jim Birdwell, Layne Myatt, Clifford Daniel, Bryan Hamilton, Steve Myatt, Kyle Touchstone, Randy Bills, Jim Wright, Rick Wright, Kurt Wales, Darrell Buckley and Dudley Wooten.
Honorary pallbearers were Kenneth Cleveland and members of Dimmitt High School’s boys’ basketball team.
Funds for a memorial scholarship for Amber Vaughan have been established at the First State Bank of Dimmitt and the Citizens State Bank of Earth.
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(Published in The Castro County News,56th Year-No. 32, Dimmitt, Texas, Thursday, May 5, 1983, Page 1,14)
A tragic truck accident on the Continental Divide in southwestern Colorado last Wednesday night took the lives of three members of a young area family.
Danny Vaughan, 25, his wife, Sharla, 24, and their four-week-old son, Adam, died when the semi-trailer truck in which they were riding ran off the highway along Wolf Creek Pass and plunged more than 1,000 feet to the valley floor below.
Their 2 ½-year-old daughter, Amber, was thrown from the truck shortly after it left the highway and escaped with a broken collar bone and abrasions. She was treated at a clinic in nearby Pagosa Springs.
Vaughan’s oldest brother, Gene, a realtor at Fort Collins, flew the injured girl home from Pagosa Springs, bringing her to her grandparents, Loyd and Dorothy Vaughan of Dimmitt.
Wolf Creek Pass, with an elevation of 10,850 ft., is on US Highway 160, approximately 25 miles north of Pagosa Springs.
Mineral County Deputy Sheriff Gary Parsons, who investigated the fatal accident, said Vaughan was driving south, along the west side of the pass, when the vehicle went out of control about sundown Wednesday. The truck was carrying a load of rabbit feed in pellet form, the officer reported.
Parsons said the truck skidded 172 feet, rolled onto its right side, then slid 80 feet through a guard rail and was airborne another 70 feet before it hit a large rock formation below. The tractor and trailer tore apart upon impact and the trailer came to rest at the rock formation, while the tractor careened down the steep embankment all the way to the valley floor, where it came to rest on its wheels, the Colorado officer said.
The Vaughans’ infant son was thrown from the cab about halfway down the slope.
Members of Mounted Ranger Troop F – a rescue and ambulance service made up of Pagosa Springs volunteers – retrieved Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan’s bodies about 4:30 a.m. Thursday, then searched the rest of the night before finding the baby’s body about 7:30 p.m. They took the bodies to Chambers and Sharp Funeral Home in Monte Vista, 70 miles north of the pass.
The bodies were transported back to Dimmitt, where joint funeral services were held Saturday at 2 p.m. in the First Baptist Church. The largest church in town was filled to capacity, with almost 200 seated in the separate Fellowhip [sic] Hall. Members of at least four Dimmitt churches took part in the services.
Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan both grew up in Dimmitt and graduated from Dimmitt High School – he in 1976 and she in 1977.
Vaughan was a member of Dimmitt High School’s state championship boys’ basketball team in 1975 and was an all-regional player in 1976. He also was a member of the Bobcat Band and the National Honor Society.
After his graduation, he farmed near Earth, and later formed a partnership with his father and brother, Kent, in D&L Fertilizer and Grain in Earth. He was making a truck run for the family business when the fatal accident occurred.
Mrs. Vaughan, the former Sharla Burrous, was the daughter of Reeford and Betty Burrous, now of Dumas. She was a twirler three years with the Bobcat Band, an all-region band performer, a class officer and beauty award winner.
The couple were married in August 1977 in Dimmitt, and established their home in Earth.
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Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Danny Karl Vaughan
Date of Birth: 17 Nov 1957
Gender: Male
Birth County: Parmer
Father's name: James Loyd Vaughan
Mother's name: Dorothy Willene Jones
Roll Number: 1957_0016
Texas, Marriage Index, 1824-2014
Name: Danny K Vaughan
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Birth Year: abt 1958
Marriage Date: 20 Aug 1977
Marriage Place: Castro, Texas, USA
Spouse: Sharla D Burrous
Spouse Gender: Female
Spouse Age: 18
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Danny Karl Vaughan
[Danny Vaughan]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 17 Nov 1957
Birth Place: Friona Parme, Texas
Death Date: Apr 1983
Notes: 04 Feb 1974: Name listed as DANNY KARL VAUGHAN; 05 Jan 1988: Name listed as DANNY VAUGHAN
(Published in the Castro County News, 56th Year- No. 32, Dimmitt, Texas, Thursday, May 5, 1983, Page 9)
Funeral services were conducted in Dimmitt Saturday afternoon for Danny Karl Vaughan, 25; his wife, Sharla Denece Burrous Vaughan, 24; and their four-week-old son, Adam Karl.
They died in a truck accident last Wednesday night near Pagosa Springs, Colo.
Last rites were held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the First Baptist Church. Officiating were Rev. Jimmy Nunn, pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Earth, and Ronnie Parker, former minister of the Fourth and Bedford Church of Christ in Dimmitt.
Burial followed in West Lawn Memorial Park, under the direction of Parsons Funeral Home.
Mr. Vaughan was born Nov. 17, 1957, in Friona, while his family was farming land west of the Flagg community. He moved with his family to southeastern Colorado when he was 2 years old, and returned to Castro County in 1968. He had lived in the Dimmitt and Earth areas ever since.
He was a member of Dimmitt High School’s state championship basketball team in 1975, and was an all-regional player his senior year, 1976. He also was a member of the high school band and National Honor Society.
He started farming near Earth in 1977, and the following year his family purchased D&L Fertilizer and Grain in Earth, which he helped operate.
Mrs. Vaughan was born Feb. 8, 1959, in Clovis, and moved with her family to Dimmitt from Tulia in 1969, when she was in the fourth grade.
While attending Dimmitt High School, she was a twirler three years with the Bobcat Band, was a class officer and beauty award winner, and was a member of the All-Region Band. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church.
Following her high school graduation, the couple married in August 1977 in Dimmitt. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan had lived in Earth since their marriage.
Their first child, Amber, was born in 1981, Adam Karl was born last March 31 in Central Plains Regional Hospital, Plainview.
Their daughter, Amber, 2 ½, survives them.
Survivors in Mr. Vaughan’s family are his parents, Loyd and Dorothy Vaughan of Dimmitt; two brothers, Gene of Fort Collins, Colo., and Kent of Earth; and his grandmother, Essie Vaughan of Dimmitt.
Survivors in Mrs. Vaughan’s family are her parents, Reeford and Betty Burrous of Dumas; two sisters, Shanee Lust and Sherri Matthews, both of Dimmitt; and her grandmother, Mattie Stovall of Clovis.
Pallbearers at the funeral services Saturday were Jim Birdwell, Layne Myatt, Clifford Daniel, Bryan Hamilton, Steve Myatt, Kyle Touchstone, Randy Bills, Jim Wright, Rick Wright, Kurt Wales, Darrell Buckley and Dudley Wooten.
Honorary pallbearers were Kenneth Cleveland and members of Dimmitt High School’s boys’ basketball team.
Funds for a memorial scholarship for Amber Vaughan have been established at the First State Bank of Dimmitt and the Citizens State Bank of Earth.
----
(Published in The Castro County News,56th Year-No. 32, Dimmitt, Texas, Thursday, May 5, 1983, Page 1,14)
A tragic truck accident on the Continental Divide in southwestern Colorado last Wednesday night took the lives of three members of a young area family.
Danny Vaughan, 25, his wife, Sharla, 24, and their four-week-old son, Adam, died when the semi-trailer truck in which they were riding ran off the highway along Wolf Creek Pass and plunged more than 1,000 feet to the valley floor below.
Their 2 ½-year-old daughter, Amber, was thrown from the truck shortly after it left the highway and escaped with a broken collar bone and abrasions. She was treated at a clinic in nearby Pagosa Springs.
Vaughan’s oldest brother, Gene, a realtor at Fort Collins, flew the injured girl home from Pagosa Springs, bringing her to her grandparents, Loyd and Dorothy Vaughan of Dimmitt.
Wolf Creek Pass, with an elevation of 10,850 ft., is on US Highway 160, approximately 25 miles north of Pagosa Springs.
Mineral County Deputy Sheriff Gary Parsons, who investigated the fatal accident, said Vaughan was driving south, along the west side of the pass, when the vehicle went out of control about sundown Wednesday. The truck was carrying a load of rabbit feed in pellet form, the officer reported.
Parsons said the truck skidded 172 feet, rolled onto its right side, then slid 80 feet through a guard rail and was airborne another 70 feet before it hit a large rock formation below. The tractor and trailer tore apart upon impact and the trailer came to rest at the rock formation, while the tractor careened down the steep embankment all the way to the valley floor, where it came to rest on its wheels, the Colorado officer said.
The Vaughans’ infant son was thrown from the cab about halfway down the slope.
Members of Mounted Ranger Troop F – a rescue and ambulance service made up of Pagosa Springs volunteers – retrieved Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan’s bodies about 4:30 a.m. Thursday, then searched the rest of the night before finding the baby’s body about 7:30 p.m. They took the bodies to Chambers and Sharp Funeral Home in Monte Vista, 70 miles north of the pass.
The bodies were transported back to Dimmitt, where joint funeral services were held Saturday at 2 p.m. in the First Baptist Church. The largest church in town was filled to capacity, with almost 200 seated in the separate Fellowhip [sic] Hall. Members of at least four Dimmitt churches took part in the services.
Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan both grew up in Dimmitt and graduated from Dimmitt High School – he in 1976 and she in 1977.
Vaughan was a member of Dimmitt High School’s state championship boys’ basketball team in 1975 and was an all-regional player in 1976. He also was a member of the Bobcat Band and the National Honor Society.
After his graduation, he farmed near Earth, and later formed a partnership with his father and brother, Kent, in D&L Fertilizer and Grain in Earth. He was making a truck run for the family business when the fatal accident occurred.
Mrs. Vaughan, the former Sharla Burrous, was the daughter of Reeford and Betty Burrous, now of Dumas. She was a twirler three years with the Bobcat Band, an all-region band performer, a class officer and beauty award winner.
The couple were married in August 1977 in Dimmitt, and established their home in Earth.
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Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Danny Karl Vaughan
Date of Birth: 17 Nov 1957
Gender: Male
Birth County: Parmer
Father's name: James Loyd Vaughan
Mother's name: Dorothy Willene Jones
Roll Number: 1957_0016
Texas, Marriage Index, 1824-2014
Name: Danny K Vaughan
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Birth Year: abt 1958
Marriage Date: 20 Aug 1977
Marriage Place: Castro, Texas, USA
Spouse: Sharla D Burrous
Spouse Gender: Female
Spouse Age: 18
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Danny Karl Vaughan
[Danny Vaughan]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 17 Nov 1957
Birth Place: Friona Parme, Texas
Death Date: Apr 1983
Notes: 04 Feb 1974: Name listed as DANNY KARL VAUGHAN; 05 Jan 1988: Name listed as DANNY VAUGHAN
Funeral services were conducted in Dimmitt Saturday afternoon for Danny Karl Vaughan, 25; his wife, Sharla Denece Burrous Vaughan, 24; and their four-week-old son, Adam Karl.
They died in a truck accident last Wednesday night near Pagosa Springs, Colo.
Last rites were held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the First Baptist Church. Officiating were Rev. Jimmy Nunn, pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Earth, and Ronnie Parker, former minister of the Fourth and Bedford Church of Christ in Dimmitt.
Burial followed in West Lawn Memorial Park, under the direction of Parsons Funeral Home.
Mr. Vaughan was born Nov. 17, 1957, in Friona, while his family was farming land west of the Flagg community. He moved with his family to southeastern Colorado when he was 2 years old, and returned to Castro County in 1968. He had lived in the Dimmitt and Earth areas ever since.
He was a member of Dimmitt High School’s state championship basketball team in 1975, and was an all-regional player his senior year, 1976. He also was a member of the high school band and National Honor Society.
He started farming near Earth in 1977, and the following year his family purchased D&L Fertilizer and Grain in Earth, which he helped operate.
Mrs. Vaughan was born Feb. 8, 1959, in Clovis, and moved with her family to Dimmitt from Tulia in 1969, when she was in the fourth grade.
While attending Dimmitt High School, she was a twirler three years with the Bobcat Band, was a class officer and beauty award winner, and was a member of the All-Region Band. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church.
Following her high school graduation, the couple married in August 1977 in Dimmitt. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan had lived in Earth since their marriage.
Their first child, Amber, was born in 1981, Adam Karl was born last March 31 in Central Plains Regional Hospital, Plainview.
Their daughter, Amber, 2 ½, survives them.
Survivors in Mr. Vaughan’s family are his parents, Loyd and Dorothy Vaughan of Dimmitt; two brothers, Gene of Fort Collins, Colo., and Kent of Earth; and his grandmother, Essie Vaughan of Dimmitt.
Survivors in Mrs. Vaughan’s family are her parents, Reeford and Betty Burrous of Dumas; two sisters, Shanee Lust and Sherri Matthews, both of Dimmitt; and her grandmother, Mattie Stovall of Clovis.
Pallbearers at the funeral services Saturday were Jim Birdwell, Layne Myatt, Clifford Daniel, Bryan Hamilton, Steve Myatt, Kyle Touchstone, Randy Bills, Jim Wright, Rick Wright, Kurt Wales, Darrell Buckley and Dudley Wooten.
Honorary pallbearers were Kenneth Cleveland and members of Dimmitt High School’s boys’ basketball team.
Funds for a memorial scholarship for Amber Vaughan have been established at the First State Bank of Dimmitt and the Citizens State Bank of Earth.
----
(Published in The Castro County News,56th Year-No. 32, Dimmitt, Texas, Thursday, May 5, 1983, Page 1,14)
A tragic truck accident on the Continental Divide in southwestern Colorado last Wednesday night took the lives of three members of a young area family.
Danny Vaughan, 25, his wife, Sharla, 24, and their four-week-old son, Adam, died when the semi-trailer truck in which they were riding ran off the highway along Wolf Creek Pass and plunged more than 1,000 feet to the valley floor below.
Their 2 ½-year-old daughter, Amber, was thrown from the truck shortly after it left the highway and escaped with a broken collar bone and abrasions. She was treated at a clinic in nearby Pagosa Springs.
Vaughan’s oldest brother, Gene, a realtor at Fort Collins, flew the injured girl home from Pagosa Springs, bringing her to her grandparents, Loyd and Dorothy Vaughan of Dimmitt.
Wolf Creek Pass, with an elevation of 10,850 ft., is on US Highway 160, approximately 25 miles north of Pagosa Springs.
Mineral County Deputy Sheriff Gary Parsons, who investigated the fatal accident, said Vaughan was driving south, along the west side of the pass, when the vehicle went out of control about sundown Wednesday. The truck was carrying a load of rabbit feed in pellet form, the officer reported.
Parsons said the truck skidded 172 feet, rolled onto its right side, then slid 80 feet through a guard rail and was airborne another 70 feet before it hit a large rock formation below. The tractor and trailer tore apart upon impact and the trailer came to rest at the rock formation, while the tractor careened down the steep embankment all the way to the valley floor, where it came to rest on its wheels, the Colorado officer said.
The Vaughans’ infant son was thrown from the cab about halfway down the slope.
Members of Mounted Ranger Troop F – a rescue and ambulance service made up of Pagosa Springs volunteers – retrieved Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan’s bodies about 4:30 a.m. Thursday, then searched the rest of the night before finding the baby’s body about 7:30 p.m. They took the bodies to Chambers and Sharp Funeral Home in Monte Vista, 70 miles north of the pass.
The bodies were transported back to Dimmitt, where joint funeral services were held Saturday at 2 p.m. in the First Baptist Church. The largest church in town was filled to capacity, with almost 200 seated in the separate Fellowhip [sic] Hall. Members of at least four Dimmitt churches took part in the services.
Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan both grew up in Dimmitt and graduated from Dimmitt High School – he in 1976 and she in 1977.
Vaughan was a member of Dimmitt High School’s state championship boys’ basketball team in 1975 and was an all-regional player in 1976. He also was a member of the Bobcat Band and the National Honor Society.
After his graduation, he farmed near Earth, and later formed a partnership with his father and brother, Kent, in D&L Fertilizer and Grain in Earth. He was making a truck run for the family business when the fatal accident occurred.
Mrs. Vaughan, the former Sharla Burrous, was the daughter of Reeford and Betty Burrous, now of Dumas. She was a twirler three years with the Bobcat Band, an all-region band performer, a class officer and beauty award winner.
The couple were married in August 1977 in Dimmitt, and established their home in Earth.
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Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Danny Karl Vaughan
Date of Birth: 17 Nov 1957
Gender: Male
Birth County: Parmer
Father's name: James Loyd Vaughan
Mother's name: Dorothy Willene Jones
Roll Number: 1957_0016
Texas, Marriage Index, 1824-2014
Name: Danny K Vaughan
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Birth Year: abt 1958
Marriage Date: 20 Aug 1977
Marriage Place: Castro, Texas, USA
Spouse: Sharla D Burrous
Spouse Gender: Female
Spouse Age: 18
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Danny Karl Vaughan
[Danny Vaughan]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 17 Nov 1957
Birth Place: Friona Parme, Texas
Death Date: Apr 1983
Notes: 04 Feb 1974: Name listed as DANNY KARL VAUGHAN; 05 Jan 1988: Name listed as DANNY VAUGHAN
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