Tulsa Co. - Obit for Carlton Scales

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Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First Presbyterian Church with Dr.
Murray Gossett of the church officiating. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery by
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Memorial Chapel, Fifth Avenue and Pierce
Street.

Mr. Scales was the son of the late United States Commissioner Rollie Scales
and Amarillo business woman, Iweta Pittman Scales. He started his own big
band in 1934, The Carlton Scales Orchestra, and toured the country.

He graduated in 1935 from Amarillo High School and attended Amarillo
College and West Texas State College. He participated in local theater as an
actor. He lived in Los Angeles in 1937 while attending American School of
Broadcasting.

In 1939, he and his mother purchased the Aviatrix Ballroom on Route 66. He
was a staff sergeant during World War II from 1942 to 1946. After the war he
returned to Amarillo to run the Aviatrix Club.

He brought in all the big band names such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong,
Stan Keaton, Jack Teagarden, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey and many more. In
1951 he married Jerri Williamson, a singer and pianist with the Carlton's Band.
Their five children are all professional musicians.

He was preceded in death by his wife, on Feb. 6, 1978, after 27 years of
marriage; and his parents.

Survivors include three daughters, Carli Scales Seward and husband, Roy, and
Margaret Scales Peacock and husband, Mike, all of Amarillo, and Sheri Scales
Neubauer and husband, Nils, of Tulsa, Okla.; two sons, Thomas Carlton
Scales and wife, Sherry Holly, of Lubbock and Nicholas Alan Scales and wife,
Lori, of Fort Worth; eight grandchildren, Christy Scales-White of Poplar
Grove, Ill., Diane Scales, Melody Scales, Elizabeth Scales-Beasley and
husband, Zane, Nicholas Carlton Scales-Peacock and Jerri Peacock, all of
Amarillo, and Loren Scales and Addison Scales, both of Fort Worth; and
seven great-grandchildren, Cassandra White, Quintessa Taylor, Tristan
Procknicki, Kalee Scales, Anthony Beasley, Madison Beasley and Allison
Beasley.

The family suggests memorials be to Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice, P.O. Box
950, Amarillo, TX 79176; Presbyterian Children's Home, 3400 S. Bowie St.,
Amarillo, TX 79109; or Meals on Wheels, 1416 W. Eight Ave., Amarillo, TX
79101.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

The family will be at 1210 W. 20th Ave. in Amarillo.