Agency and Community Mourn Loss of Wildlife Officer

RALEIGH, N.C. (July 2, 2008)– The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission mourns the loss of Master Wildlife Officer Eddie Vaughan, 38, killed in a motorcycle accident in Vance County on Monday, June 30.

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission flag will be flown at half-staff on the day of his funeral.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 3, at South Henderson Pentecostal Holiness Church, 905 Americal Road, Henderson with burial following at Sunset Gardens. The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission honor guard will provide ceremonial escort and present the North Carolina flag to the family.

Visitation is scheduled for tonight, July 2, from 7 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at J.M. White Funeral Home, 60 Zeb Robinson Road, Henderson.

A 14-year-veteran wildlife officer, Vaughn is remembered by colleagues and fellow law enforcement officers not only as a consummate and dedicated professional, but also as personable with a love of the outdoors.

Vaughan began his career as a wildlife officer upon completion of the Wildlife Officer Academy in May 1994, with a training assignment in Onslow County, stationed in Jacksonville. In November 1994, he received his permanent duty station in Pender County, in Hampstead. In February 1998, he transferred to Vance County, in first Henderson and later to Middleburg where he had currently lived.

Vaughan is survived by his wife, Angie Pernell Vaughan and stepdaughter, Brittany Denise Pernell; his parents, Eddie Graham Vaughan Sr. and Candi M. Vaughan of Durham; and a brother, John Russ Vaughan of Timberlake.