Jane Vaughan

Jane Alyece Fulk Vaughan

A beautiful, faithful saint was called home to Heaven on Thursday, February 2, 2023. Her love for her Savior and her life of service and submission to the will of her Heavenly Father has left to and encouraged in her beloved family a legacy of faith, through which we trust the Lord will continue to grow and bring a harvest.  Jane was born on February 18, 1932 in Winston-Salem, NC to Wiley Lee and Laura Beck Shouse Fulk. She was beautiful and brilliant, graduating as Salutatorian from Old Town School in Winston-Salem where she was also a cheerleader. She was known and loved not just for her outward beauty, which was always striking, but also her inward beauty—her kindness, wit, and spunk. She also sang in a trio that was featured on local radio. She used her beautiful alto voice throughout her life, whether it was in church choir, around the house, singing to her babies, grandbabies, or great-grandbabies, or even humming through the store as she shopped. She worked at several places in North Carolina and Virginia, using her brilliant mind in cost management and accounting. She was never idle—always working, always serving. She worked and served at home and at church, and she loved to work in the garden, always planting and tending vegetables and flowers with the greenest thumb you’ve ever seen!

She began and ended her life as a faithful member of Beck’s Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, and when she did not live in this area, she faithfully attended and served as a church member of other churches while living in Mechanicsville, VA and Winter Park, FL. She became a Christian at a young age at Beck’s Baptist Church.  In 1947, a new pastor came to Beck’s Baptist, and with him came his tall, handsome son, Ryland Vaughan. He picked her out to be his own when she walked out with the choir, and they were the first couple married in the current sanctuary of Beck’s Baptist in December of 1951. She grew up in that church serving in all the classes and missions organizations offered. Her life was one of service, faith, and praise.

Jane was a gardener—a planter of seeds and tender of life, both physical and spiritual. She scattered seeds of faith wherever she went, sharing her faith with strangers and asking them about theirs, sharing her faith with family and friends. She tended plants wherever she went, teaching, praying, and encouraging all who crossed her path. She was a vessel of the Lord, pouring the Living Water of Jesus on all she came across. She suffered loss and heartache in her life, but the Lord Jesus held her fast and her faith never wavered. Even as she lay in the hospital the last two weeks of her sweet, precious life, she never doubted. The Lord strengthened her and encouraged her, and she, in turn, strengthened and encouraged those around her, from her dear family to each staff member who came into her room, whether they were giving her medical attention or mopping the floor. The Lord was tender in His care of her, and her family, during those days, providing nurses and doctors who both prayed with and for her, and she for them. She inquired about their spiritual standing, a faithful witness to the very end. She would ask you about yours as well, and pray that you would know Jesus as your Savior and God as your Father, so that you might have the hope and faith she had, the certain and secure hope of eternal life in Heaven through the precious blood of Christ Jesus.

Jane was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 55 years, Robert Ryland Vaughan, Sr., her parents, Wiley and Laura Fulk, and her siblings: Wiley Fulk, Jr., Myrtle Boger, Mildred Cain, Irene Hauser, Doris Gant, Johnny Fulk, and Kyle Fulk. She is survived by her loving family—children, Jan Vaughan Smith (Harold) and Robert Ryland (Bobby) Vaughan, Jr. (Dawn); her grandchildren: Laura Edwards (Todd), Christen McCormick (Joe), Katie Pearce (Drew), Leah Hallsey (Matt), and Anna Willetts (Riley); her great-grandchildren: Cameron Edwards, Rachael Edwards, Nick McCormick, Logan McCormick, Charli Anne McCormick, Adeline McCormick, Evie Pearce, Lydia Pearce, Carter Hallsey, Madison Hallsey, Sophie Hallsey, Vaida Willetts, and Ella Willetts; her sister, Wilma Hauser, sister-in-law, Libby Fulk, as well as many nieces and nephews.

A celebration of life service will be held on 12:00 PM Monday, February 6, 2023, in the sanctuary of Beck’s Baptist Church, 5505 Becks Church Road, Winston-Salem, NC, 27106. The service will be conducted by Dr. Robert Steele and Elder Drew Pearce. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to one of Jane’s most favorite organizations, Samaritan’s Purse.