Kenny Vaughn Obituary (1957 - 2025)

"buzz" (edward) Sotelo '75 said:

I've known both Kenny and Danny since I was 11 years old. Playing Bronco and Pony and Colt Citrus Heights Baseball and hanging out in Citrus Heights going to San Juan High and Casa High (Graduated with Kenney, Class of "75" and hoping to "see" Kenney this year, 50 year Reunion). Just found out his older brother, (who they were living together on Blythe Ave. in Orangevale, where i last went to his brother's birthday party on 3 FEB 2021, when Frank Gadberry told be about it!!), both of them looked ("tired") and worn out...Did not realize Kenney was "Disabled" due to past drug/alcohol abuse (but it was obvious to others then). Guess his older brother, Danny, being placed in a, "home" for care, and being by, "himself" with just "cats" as "companions" (where was his son??), wasn't enough to "keep sane" anymore??? as a "100% COMBAT DISABLE FOR SERVICE, 25 YEAR VETERAN IN THE ARMY, I CAN "RELATE" TO THAT!!'' POOR PATHETIC KENNY AND DANNY.. WHERE WHERE THERE "KIDS"???? SHOWS THAT KIDS, IN THE "LONG RUN" ARE "WOTHLESS TO US, PARENTS AFTER ALL THE WORK WE PUT INTO THEM, RIGHT??? DAMN, DAN WITHCHER, MARK TRAVONI, TIM GRAHAM, AND NOW, KENNY VAUGHN (I remember, IN APRIL 1973, MY FIRST AT AGE 16 ALL OF US, AND STEVE PAJENT, AND STEVE SMITH ALSO, DRIVING UP TO THE MOUNTAINS, DRINKING UP A STORM, CAMPING, KENNEY WITH HIS SUZIKIA MOTOCYLCE STRAPPED IN THE BACK OF MY 67 FORD PICK UP TRUCK, GOING CRAZY, AGE 16 ALL OF US!! WOW) 52 YEARS AGO) AND STEVE SMITH, NOW, A "RECOVERING" GUY, SAW HIM AT THE CLASS OF 74 REUION AT HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS 100 YEARS OLD FROM ALL THAT ALCOHOL AND DRUG MISUSE AND 5150 TURN INS (PER HIS OWN WORDS!!) HONEST, NOT THE "VOTED" BEST LOOKING GUY IN THE CLASS OF 75 ANYMORE, HONEST, STEVE SMITH LOOKS LIKE HOLLY SHIT OLD AND USED, BROKE... NO LONGER, "GOOD LOOKING" BUT SAD AND USED UP. LOOK AT HIM IN THE CLASS OF 75 YEAR BOOK, STEVE SMITH HA HA HA. BUT THIS IS ABOUT KENNY VAUGHN (DRUGS AND ALCOHOL ABUSE SUCK AND 50 YEARS LATER, SUCIDE BY COP ON 29 MARCH 2025, AND WHERE, WHERE, WAS HIS "KIDS/SON" TO PREVENT THIS??? HOW BAD IS THAT??? SINCERELY, FROM A "FRIEND" , AND CLASSMATE, 50 YEARS LATER, GRADUATION ON 6 JUNE 1975, MAJOR (RET MEDICALLY, AFTER SERVING "HONORABLY" 25 YEARS OF COMBAT ARMY SERVICE, 100% DISABLED IN SERVICE VETERAN (WITH MANY PENSIONS!! FOR LIFE) BUZZ SOTELO, EMAIL ROCKYMYLES@HOTMAIL.COM (WILL THERE BE, A "SERVICE" PERFORMED BY, ANY FAMILY OR WILL THEY BE, "CHEAP" OR LOSERS??? WILL SEE! 4 APRIL 2024 TAKE CARE AND MAY, "GOD BLESS" THE CLASSES OF 74, 73, AND 72,