Doris Vaughn

Doris Cobb Vaughn was born Jan. 16, 1939, to Dea and Opal Cobb of the Clear Lake
community near Howe, Oklahoma. She attended and graduated from Howe Schools. Soon
after, she moved to California to work but returned when her younger sister, Dee Anna, was
born.
She married Dennis Nobles and moved to Sand Springs, Oklahoma, where she raised three
children, Sheilah, Tim and Mike. Known for volunteering at her children’s schools, she
eventually became president of the Sand Springs Parent Teacher Association.
Throughout her life, Doris enjoyed a variety of jobs and was always up for the challenge of a
new opportunity. She worked as a bank teller, seamstress, bookkeeper, executive secretary,
owner of a bridal store and church secretary/treasurer.
She was an active member of Mt. View Baptist Church where she organized countless dinners,
revivals, Vacation Bible Schools and other special events. She helped cook at church camps,
sewed costumes for church plays and enjoyed decorating the church.
Later, she married Paul Glendon Vaughn and moved to the Potts Mountain area where she
loved flower gardening and spending time with her grandchildren.
Throughout her life, she loved being surrounded by children and cooking large family meals,
including her spaghetti, banana pudding and buttermilk cake. Even in her late 80s, she still
helped care for children in the family including a great-niece and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister, Mary Charlton, a brother, David Cobb,
her husband, Glendon, and a grandson, Jeremy Bright.
She is survived by her three children, Sheilah Bright, Tim Nobles and his wife Tara, and Mike
Nobles. She is also survived by eight grandchildren: Kendall Bright, Tyler Bright and his wife,
Hannah; Mark Nobles and Kadea Nobles; Christopher Nobles and his wife, June; Kacie Bernal
and her husband, Adrian; Jaxson Nobles and step-granddaughter Chelsea Lawson. Her 12
great-grandchildren include Charley Bright, Margo Bright, Azlynn Cannon, Alayna Parks, Ava
Parks, Addy Nobles, Gabe Nobles, Ruby Bernal, and Olivia, Jayden, Brooklyn and Addilyn
Lawson.
She is also survived by her sister Dee Anna Shadwick, brother-in-law Tom Charlton, nieces and
nephew Carla Davis, Nay Black, Mariah Helmandollar, Stephen Helmandollar and their children:
Ethan Daily, Dixie Price, Eli Permenter, Brinlee Helmandollar, Hendrix Helmandollar and Noah