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Otis Harrison Vaughn, 83, formerly of Unity NH, died on Sunday, January 31, 2021 of injuries sustained in an accident two weeks before.
Otis was born on August 16th , 1937 and was the only son of William & Pauline Vaughn. Until the age of four he lived in New York City but with the entry of the United States into WWII his parents thought it best they spend the war years on a farm. They moved young Otis from NYC to Unity NH. In later year she would recall his first day in a two-room schoolhouse where he was the only Kindergartner not dressed as a soldier, a sailor, or a nurse.
The first love of his life was Verna Branch, later Verna Vaughn, whom he met while attending Stevens High School in Claremont NH. His first job out of high school was working the third shift at Joy Manufacturing in Claremont on the "burr bench" where he would use a rat-tailed file to dress a metal casting to prepare it to be machined. Of all the jobs he ever had he said he liked this one the best because it was the only one where he was left alone to think. Over many decades those thoughts manifested as a wealth of drawings, paintings, poetry, photography, and sculpture. Otis and Verna had two sons Scott and James, and after living in foreign locals such as Massachusetts and Connecticut returned to
Claremont NH to raise their family. Among his accolades he added volunteering to work with Troup 32 of the Boy Scouts in Claremont, and building a home by hand on the River Road in Claremont.
Over time Otis decided to seek a different life and went to California where he lived in Redondo Beach and worked as a Manufacturing Engineer for Northrup Aircraft - not so bad for a young man who started his career working in a foundry during the dead of night. Northrup Aircraft would pay for college courses, so over many years Otis first earned a Bachelor's of Science, and then a Master's of Business Administration, from the University of Redlands. But his greatest achievement in those years was wining the heart of the second love of his life Angela Mather, later Angela Vaughn. The next 29 years of his life was spent with Angela in Beverly Hills CA, then onto San Clemente CA, later Loveland CO, and finally in Las Vegas NV.
Otis is survived by the loves of his life, his sons, his granddaughter Libertad, and Mimi the last of a series of gray cats that were his constant companions.
As he wished, sometime this Spring his ashes will go to a place near his boyhood home in Unity where he will join other family members who are remembered there.
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