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GATES COUNTY BOY WAS A TRUE REDSKIN FAN UNTIL HIS DEATH November 22, 1979

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THE DAILY ADVANCE ELIZABETH CITY N.C. November 22, 1979
 SCOTT MCCLENNY PIERCE, 13 WHO LOVED LIFE AND THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS DIED OF
LEUKEMIA IN A HOSPITAL TUESDAY. (AP WIRE)
 THIRTY MINUTES EARLIER, SCOTT HAD BEEN SMILING, HIS HERO, REDSKINS QUARTER
BACK JOE THEISMANN, HAD TELEPHONE HIM FROM WASHINGTON.
 THE STAFF AT CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS SAW TO THAT THEY KNEW
THEISMANN WAS SCOTT'S IDOL- AND THEY KNEW THE YOUNGSTER DIDN'T HAVE LONG TO
LIVE.
 SCOTT HIMSELF HAD BEEN A QUATERBACK ON THE CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
TEAM IN GATES COUNTY WHERE HIS PARENTS LIVE IN A COMMUNITY OF HOBBSVILLE.
 HE WORE A REDSKINS T SHIRT WHEN HE WAS UP AND AROUND. HIS PILLOWCASES ON THE
HOSPITAL BED HAD REDSKINS EMBLEMS ON THEM.
 "HE WAS A REDSKINS FAN UP AND DOWN," HIS AUNT, MRS BRENDA PERRY, ASSISTANT TO
THE PRINCIPAL AT CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH, SAID WEDNESDAY.
 "HE WAS SO HAPPY WHEN JOE THEISMANN CALLED. HE SAT UP IN BED AND SMILED AND
TALKED JUST THE WAY I'M TALKING TO YOU."
 "HE WAS THE TYPE CHILD WHO SMILED AT EVERYBODY, HE LOVED LIFE, ESPECIALLY SPORTS.
HE AND HIS FATHER WOULD HAVE BEEN OUT HUNTING TODAY---IF."
 EUGENE FIELDS, PRINCIPAL OF CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SAID SCOTT "WAS ACTIVE IN EVERY
THING."
 HE WANTED TO EXCEL AT EVERYTHING HE DID. HE PLAYED FOOTBALL. HE PLAYED BASEBALL
HE WAS IN THE SCHOOL BAND. HE WAS ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THE REDSKINS.
 IRONICALLY, IT WAS A FOOTBALL INJURY A MONTH AGO THAT LED TO THE DISCOVERY THAT
SCOTT HAD LEUKEMIA.
 AFTER HE SUFFERED A HAND INJURY IN A GAME AND UGLY BRUISE DEVELOPED. HIS 
PARENTS, MR. AND MRS H. DEWITT PIERCE TOOK HIM TO A DOCTOR.
 THE DOCTOR FOUND SCOTT'S RED BLOOD CELL COUNT WAS LOW. ON A LATER VISIT, THE
COUNT HAD DROPPED EVEN LOWER. FURTHER TESTS CONFIRMED THAT SCOTT HAD LEUKEMIA,
AND HE WAS BROUGHT TO THE HOSPITAL HERE.
 "THE HOSPITAL STAFF JUST RALLIED AROUND HIM."  A HOSPITAL SPOKESMAN SAID. "JOE
THEISMANN HAD HELPED US IN OUR FUND DRIVE, SO WE THOUGHT IT WOULD CHEER THE BOY
UP IF HE COULD TALK TO A REDSKINS PLAYER."
 THESIMANN DIDN'T HESITATE TO TELEPHONE SCOTT.
 "JOE IS VERY INVOLVED WITH CHILDREN," A REDSKINS SPOKESMAN EXPLANIED. "SCOTT
WAS A BOY SCOUT, A MEMBER OF WARWICK BAPTIST CHURCH AND ITS ROYAL AMBASSADORS
GROUP, HE ALSO BELONGED TO THE WARWICK SINGERS."
 SCOTT'S FUNERAL WILL BE HELD ON TODAY IN WARWICK BAPTIST CHURCH.
 THE DAILY ADVANCE IS A PUBLICATION IN ELIZABETH CITY N.C.

    

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