Donna Harwood Smith Vaughan Townsend was an elementary Montana school teacher. She taught the first three primary grades in Norris, Sixteen, White Sulphur Springs and Miles City. She traveled and taught the three “Rs†in Texas, California, Nevada and Arizona as well as Montana. She obtained her master’s degrees when she was about 45 years old. Eventually she became a reading specialist, teaching students who had difficulty in learning to read and write. She also taught Navajo children to read English while in Arizona. She retired when she was in her late 70s and drove her automobile until she was in her mid 90s.
She experience excellent health and lived almost all of her life in Montana on the Clinton Williams homestead where five generations of her family have lived. She had beautiful penmanship into advanced age.
Donna is survived by her children Gay Lilly Vaughan Cavagnolo and Otis L. Vaughan II, as well as her sister, Wilma Harwood Miller of Billings; two grandchildren, Gigi and Mario; three great-grandchildren, Antoinette, Lisette and Gianna; many, many nephews, nieces and great-grand nieces and nephews.
She passed away on January 7, 2013, at about 7 p.m. of natural causes, two months before her 97th birthday.
The family wishes to thank St. Peter’s Hospice and Hospital staff for their many kindnesses. Services are being held at 11:30 a.m., Jan. 10, at Twichel Funeral and Cremation Service, 314 North Rodney St, Helena.
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Joyce Armold says
Even though I did not know Donna I can see that this was my loss. She must have had many wonderful stories to tell about her adventerous life. Please accept my sincere sympathy and I would like to respectfully offer you a message of comfort.
“If a man die, shall he live again?” asked the man Job long ago. (Job 14:14, King James Version) Perhaps you, too, have wondered this. How would you feel if you knew you could have a reunion with your loved ones right here on earth under the best of conditions?
Well, the Bible makes the promise:”Your dead ones will live…they will rise up.” And the Bible also says: “The righteous ones will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” Isaiah 26:19; Psalm 37:29.
To have confidence in these promises we need to answer some basic questions: Why do people die? Where are the dead? And how can we be sure they can live again?
I would love to share these Bible truths with you at no obligation should you contact me.
Joyce Armold
laritaarmold@gmail.com