Dorothy Jean Scott (Lebanon)'s Obituary
Dorothy Jean Scott, daughter of Aaron Ray and Bertha Mae Atkinson Kinkead, was born May 10, 1926, in Wichita, Kansas. She departed this life Saturday, May 31, 2014, in a friend’s home, near Conway, Missouri, at the age of eighty-eight years, and twenty-one days.
On July 21, 1958, she was united in marriage to Hurshel Doyle Scott, and they shared forty-two years before his passing on April 24, 2001.
She was also preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Harold; two sisters, Mildred and Helen; and a nephew, Kenneth.
Dorothy is survived by a nephew, Russell Nickel, and his two girls, Kristine and Laurie Ann, of Wichita, Kansas; two nieces, Sharon Nickel, and her two boys, Shannon and Bryon, of Greeley, Colorado, and Carolyn Stidham, and her boys, of Viola, Kansas; a number of local friends that she considered her family; as well as a host of other relatives and many friends.
She was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, and graduated from high school there. When she was in her twenties, she and her sister, Helen, traveled with an evangelist and his wife conducting tent revivals all over Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. Dorothy played the piano for these services for a couple of years. She then returned to Wichita, where she began working for Better Book Room, a Christian Bible and Book Store for fourteen years. Dorothy was also a devoted homemaker to her husband throughout their married years. Once she and Doyle moved to Lebanon, Missouri, in 1993, she began working for the Laclede County Developmental Training Program and worked with handicapped adults. She began as a volunteer worker and later became full time, retiring in 2003.
Dorothy accepted Christ as her personal Savior when she was seventeen. She was a faithful member of Wichita’s Baptist Tabernacle for many years, and was Superintendent of the Junior Department and had the Junior Church. She also sang in the church choir and with many other groups. After moving to Lebanon, Dorothy and Doyle became faithful members of Community Baptist Church. She taught a class of junior girls for several years, and helped Brother Charlie in Children’s Church, where she played the piano for them. She loved music and she and Doyle often sang duets for services. She also had worked with the Overcomer’s Program at Community Baptist.
Dorothy was a loving aunt, great-aunt, and a caring and concerned neighbor and friend. She will be fondly remembered as a Christian, Bible loving lady, and will be greatly missed by all of her family, friends, and church family.
Memorial donations to Community Baptist Church may be made through the funeral home.
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