Sally (Salty) Vaughn July 6, 1934 - March 20, 2007 Berkeley activist and arts enthusiast Sally Vaughn has died from kidney failure due to diabetes.
While active in the Civil Rights Movement and opposition to the Vietnam War, she settled in inner-city Detroit, married and had five children. In 1971 she moved with her children to Berkeley and found her true home. Over the next 36 years she agitated for peace and justice. An enthusiastic lover of the arts, she supported theater, acted and embraced all of the visual and performing arts. In her last week of life, she insisted on seeing Pan's Labyrinth again. She was passionate about reading and found great joy in poetry, literature and the morning papers. Of Sally's many contributions, perhaps her most significant was to raise her children to remember the poor and disenfranchised and to support the arts whenever possible. She encouraged all of them to pursue artistic interests and never let them forget that they had a responsibility to the earth, to each other & to humanity. In accordance with her wishes Sally will be buried in an environmentally sensitive manner.
Published by San Francisco Chronicle from Mar. 24 to Mar. 25, 2007.
Sally (Salty) Vaughn July 6, 1934 - March 20, 2007 Berkeley activist and arts enthusiast Sally Vaughn has died from kidney failure due to diabetes.
While active in the Civil Rights Movement and opposition to the Vietnam War, she settled in inner-city Detroit, married and had five children. In 1971 she moved with her children to Berkeley and found her true home. Over the next 36 years she agitated for peace and justice. An enthusiastic lover of the arts, she supported theater, acted and embraced all of the visual and performing arts. In her last week of life, she insisted on seeing Pan's Labyrinth again. She was passionate about reading and found great joy in poetry, literature and the morning papers. Of Sally's many contributions, perhaps her most significant was to raise her children to remember the poor and disenfranchised and to support the arts whenever possible. She encouraged all of them to pursue artistic interests and never let them forget that they had a responsibility to the earth, to each other & to humanity. In accordance with her wishes Sally will be buried in an environmentally sensitive manner.
Published by San Francisco Chronicle from Mar. 24 to Mar. 25, 2007.
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