Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
2:46 pm Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Mary Lou Scott

Mary Lou Scott

October 10, 2012

Mary Lou Scott, 81, died Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, at Red Bay Hospital.

She was born in Alabama and was a school bus driver for Vina High School for 17 years. She was a member of New Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Hodges, and a member of  Order of Eastern Star.

Funeral services were Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012, at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel, Red Bay, with Bro. Tony Wood officiating. Burial was in Holly Springs Cemetery, Atwood.

Survivors are one daughter, Sharon Ranae Scott, Vina; two sisters, Delora Bishop and husband, Charlie, and Patricia Cole and husband, Cecil, Red Bay; two brothers, Cecil Evans, Vina, and Charles Evans and wife, Lillie, Ypsilanti, Mich., and three grandchildren, Heather Scott Bingham, Justin Scott and Loranda Scott.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Howard Scott, two daughters, Loranda Scott and Bonnie Scott, a son, Rickey Scott, and her parents, Ernest Evans and Zellar Emerson Evans.

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