Obituary: Mr. John Wesley Scott, Jr., Tensas Parish, Louisiana
Extracted from The Tensas Gazette, Page 6-Wednesday, October 4, 2000
Submitted by Edith Ziegler
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Page 6-Wednesday, October 4, 2000
Mr. John Wesley Scott, Jr.

Graveside services for Mr. John Wesley Scott, Jr., age 81, of St. 
Joseph were were held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, September 30, 2000 
in the Legion Memorial Cemetery in Newellton with Father William 
Dennis officiating. Burial was under the direction of Crothers-
Glenwood Funeral Home of Tallulah.

Mr. Scott died late Wednesday night, September 27, at his residence 
in St. Joseph. He was born in St. Joseph and had lived most of his 
life there. He was an electrical communications and television 
repairman and a member of the Christ Episcopal Church in St. Joseph. 
He was an artillery veteran of World War II.

He is survived by his wife, Helen Ricks Scott of St. Joseph; four 
Sons; John Wesley Scott, III of Farmington, Missouri, Gerald A. 
Scott of St. Francisville, Fred E. Scott of St. Joseph, and David W. 
Scott of Shreveport, one brother, William Eugene Scott of Hammond; 
two sisters, Dot Curry of St. Joseph and Jane  Gould of Sulphur; two 
grandchildren, Dawn Scaife of Plano, Texas, and Todd Eugene Scott of 
St. Joseph.

Pallbearers were Kenneth Jones, Edwin Blanche, Rickey Jones, Ernest 
Hestle, Rickey Foster, David W. Scott, and Todd Scott.