Ethel Vertie Bushrod Vaughn departed this life late
on Wednesday, July 18,2018. The daughter of the late
Mary Robinson and Harry Bushrod, she was the sixth of
eleven children born to this union. Ethel was born on December
17,1924 in Baltimore, Maryland. She was preceded in death by
Carl Vaughn her beloved husband of 67 years; her parents,
and siblings, Delmar, Dorothy, Harry, Sherwood, Lucille, Mary,
Theodore, Geneva, Albert, and Ernest.

She was educated in the Baltimore Public Schools System and
graduated from Douglass High School. Upon completion of school
she worked in a local Baltimore factory as a heel trimmer. Her sister,
Mary, worked beside her and Mama always said that Mary was the
fastest worker at the plant.

While attending church service at John Wesley Methodist Church, she
met the man of her dreams Carl Vaughn, who would later become her
husband. After an appropriate courtship they were married on
September 6, 1947. Carl and Ethel had three children, Kendell,
Joyce Carla and Carl, Jr. Ethel's crowning achievement was becoming a
mother. Raising, loving, protecting and fighting for her children was
her calling; a passion, which remained well into her nineties. Ethel
instilled in her children the love for reading. Every night she
would read to us from a book that was in our collection. She was a:
classroom volunteer in the schools of her children and grandchildren
for many years. This is where she learned how to teach us the three
"R's", reading, writing, and arithmetic. She had a love for her
grandchildren. There was never a time when she could not be
counted on to babysit, feed, entertain kids and still find
time for her special brand of gentle discipline when necessary.
When the "grandchildren" grew into young adults they still came
around to be with her.

Ethel had great culinary skills and cooked wonderful meals. She
made the best crab cakes, fried chicken, fried fish, beef stew, greens,
sauerkraut and pigtails, sweet potato pie, coconut cake and best hot
rolls in Baltimore City. Daily she would have dinner on the table at
5:30 pm and we would sit around the table and talk about our day
with our parents. She attended Shiloh Christian Community Church
for many years where she was a member of the Usher Board and
Willing Workers before her illness. On many Sundays she would
be in Church all day because she loved to hear the word of the Lord.
She truly believed that if she could support her church and its programs,
and others along the way, then her life was not in vain.

She leaves to mourn; her children, Kendell (Amos Matthews), Carla
(Perry Farrington, Jr.) and Carl Jr. (Stephanie Richardson); grandchildren,
Brandon (Nicole Parker), Perry III, Nikkia, Carletta, Carrie, Debbie and
Michael; great-children, Ta'naza, Amari, Gabrielle, Jordan and Chase,
sister-in-law, Eloise Bright and a special family friend, Mary Hancock. She
is also remembered by numerous nieces, nephews, and other relatives
and friends.