God took Ines Elizabeth Vaughn, a longtime Mercer resident, home on April 23, 2011, age 95, when she died of natural causes.      Ines was the daughter of the late Herman and Ella (Behm) Stone and was born March 6, 1916 in Neva, Wis. in Langlade County.      Ines married Arjay Vaughn, son of Frank and Mathilda Vaughn, on Nov. 3, 1933.      Ines attended the Mercer School and often talked about the friends she made there and kept in contact with over the years. She worked at various employments including cooking at the Mercer Grade School, working at the Toothpick Factory, a candle company, and Tru Flight. She liked to sew, embroider and crochet. Many of the things she made are among our most cherished keepsakes.      Ines will be missed by her family and many friends.      Besides her parents and Arjay, she was preceded in death by four brothers, Eugene, Carl, Robert and Lloyd Stone; two sisters, Virginia Casanova and Frieda Jensens; a daughter-in-law, Joan (Leroy) Vaughn; and a grandson, Benjamin Vaughn.      Ines is survived by four sons, Leroy of Mercer, Arjay F. (Geri) of Badin, N.C., Carl (Nancy) of Kiel, and Harvey (Linda) of Howards Grove; four daughters, Phyllis (Calvin) Horner of Bozeman, Mont., Barbara (Norbert) Baeseman of Winchester, Janis (Bill) Flesch of Mercer, and Darlene (Tony) Hoffmann of Sheboygan Falls; two sisters, Vivian Saari of Hurley, and Bette Dierkes of Cave Junction, Ore.; 22 grandchildren; 45 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.      Cremation has taken place and private services and inurnment will be in the Mercer Cemetery at a later date.      Arrangements were entrusted to McKevitt-Patrick Funeral Home and Cremation Services of Ironwood.