Mary Jane Mitts

Monday, January 22, 2018

Mary Jane Mitts, age 87, Pleasanton, Kan., passed away on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018. She was born at Foster, Mo., on Sept. 30, 1930 the daughter of John and Mary Frances Galvin Vaughn. She was married to Willard Mitts on July 14, 1963. He preceded her in death on Feb. 10, 2012. She worked in the Healthy Start program in Bourbon, Linn, Allen and Anderson counties. Mary Jane was a member of the Gold Star Mothers. Her membership was the result of her son John Davis being killed in action in the Vietnam War in August of 1968. She was also a member of the Pleasanton First Christian Church and the VFW Auxiliary. She was also preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Donald and Joe Vaughn. She is survived by five daughters: Terry Tucker and Jeff, Linda Streeter and Andy, Waneta Cox and Garen, Dixie Bollinger and Rod, and Doneta Mitts, a sister Dorothy Miller, nine grandchildren: John, Jerome, Jeremy, Jerrett, Joshua, Branden, Christopher, Amy and Matt, 13 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

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