San Joaquin County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Scott, Dorothy Jean November 12 2004
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The Record  November 16, 2004
Stockton
Dorothy Jean Scott 
February 14, 1915 - Nov. 12, 2004
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Dorothy Jean Scott, longtime Stockton resident and leader in the community and 
business affairs, died on November 12, at the age of 89. Born and raised in 
Auburn, California, she met her future husband, third-generation Stocktonian, 
the late Robert O. Scott at Sacramento Community College. The two were married 
secretly while Robert was completing his teaching degree at Chico State, an 
arrangement noted by their friend and classmate, Herb Caen, in his college 
newspaper column, a template for his long running and widely renowned column in 
the San Francisco Chronicle. After the couple moved to Stockton in 1940, 
Dorothy opened a dress shop on Pacific Ave. When Robert became principal at El 
Dorado School, she dedicated herself to raising their children and assumed 
leadership positions with the PTA and Cub Scouts, as well as volunteering at 
St. Joseph's Hospital. The couple began investing in and developing commercial 
property on Stockton's Pacific Avenue Miracle Mile in the 1960s. The properties 
flourished, and after Robert's death in 1987, she managed the properties and 
became president of the Pacific Ave. Improvement District Assn. During her 
presidency the committee planned and made a commitment to the area's recently 
completed improvements. Both Robert and Dorothy were active and devoted members 
of Stockton's First Baptist Church. They also maintained a residence in Santa 
Cruz. The couple's first daughter, Jacqueline Scott, was killed in a boating 
accident in 1952 at the age of 14. 
Dorothy is survived by daughter and son-in-law, Nancy Lois and Hugh Moore III, 
of Santa Cruz; son and daughter-in-law, Robert O. and Sharon Scott of Warwick, 
NY; grandchildren, Tiffany Jean Moore of San Jose, Skip and Jodee Moore of 
Stockton, Jonathan and Linnea Scott of Warwick, NY; great-grandsons, Hugh IV 
and Hugh G. Moore V, of Stockton.
Services will be Thursday, November 18, 1:00 p.m. at the First Baptist Church. 
Donations preferred to First Baptist Church Memorial Fund. 




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