Larry Scott
Mr. Larry Scott, 86, a resident of Woodland Mills, died Sept. 2, 2023, at his residence.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Thursday at White-Ranson Funeral Home. The Rev. Rick Burton and the Rev. Shawn White will officiate. Burial will follow in Obion County Memorial Gardens.
Pallbearers will be Roy Arrington, Harold Webb, Jacob Greene, George Evans Jr., George Evans III and Gary Eckert.
The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Larry was the oldest of six children and from an early age loved to hunt and fish, often finding arrowheads and other treasures on creek beds and in the woods that accumulated into a lifelong collection.
Upon leaving Clinton High School, he entered the U.S. Air Force. Stationed in Plattsburg, N.Y., he served as a Munitions System Specialist from 1955-59 during the Suez Canal Crisis. Following active duty, Larry was enlisted in the Air Force Reserves for an additional two years.
After the AF, Larry worked for the Illinois Central Railroad in Fulton for 10 years. When passenger trains were abolished, he went to work for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Union City. Moving his family to the Woodland Mills area, he lived the next 50 years in the same home. While at Goodyear, Larry became certified in many areas working in the maintenance department.
Larry was a Christian and a member of Woodland Mills First Baptist Church. Coming from a family of talented artists and singers, Larry used his wonderful voice to serve the Lord in the choir for many years.
In addition to hunting and fishing, he loved motorcycles. He enjoyed several long trips with family members and rode up into his senior years.
Mr. Scott was born on Feb. 1, 1937, in the Harmony, Ky., community to the late James Hiram and Georgia Pauline (Pean) Polsgrove Scott. On Dec. 6, 1955, he married Faye Arrington. She survives.
He is also survived by a daughter, Sheila Cawley of Union City; a son, Shane Scott and wife, Denise, of Martin; granddaughter, Hannah Napier of Union City; great-granddaughter, Reilly Mears of Union City; three young people whom he loved like grandchildren, Kaylee Greene, Andrew Stephens and Karrie Burton; two brothers, Monty Scott and wife, Carolyn, of Richmond, Va., and Steve Scott and wife, Maggie, of Quinton, Va.; two sisters, Paula Simpson and husband, Bill, of Gastonia, N.C., and Norah Gay Beach of Mangohick, Va.; and several nieces and nephews.
He was also preceded in death by his sister, Sandy Harrow.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.
Published in The Messenger/9.6.23