Missouri B. Scott

Missouri Brown Scott was born on March 7, 1919. She departed this life on June 28, 2019 at the age of 100 years old. Born in Brunswick County, Virginia along with 13 siblings to Willie and Virginia Brown, she received Christ at an early age and joined Piney Grove Baptist Church. After attending primary school in Brunswick County, she moved to Portsmouth, Virginia to attend high school and live with her oldest sister, Daisy. Our mother graduated Norcum High School and it was there that she met our father, Walter R. Scott. Four children were born to this union, Walter R. Scott, Jr. (deceased), James W. Scott (deceased), Louise Victoria Scott Robertson, and Rita Scott Forrest. She was a member of Mount Herman Baptist Temple, the United Order of Tents, and the Eastern Stars. While her first three children were in elementary school, she served as PTA president and treasurer. Our mother furthered her education at Norfolk Community College (now Norfolk State University) and graduated from the nurse’s aid program. For a short period of time, she was an insurance agent and the community Avon lady. Anyone who knew our mother knew this to be true, she was hospitable, an excellent cook, an excellent housekeeper, and an excellent gardener. Missouri and Walter Scott were married for 52 years before our father passed away in February 1993. Later in life, she lived with her daughter, Rita, until the complications of Alzheimer’s caused her to need additional care. While she was able, as a resident at Summerset Assisted Living, she attended daily devotion and the community church at Summerset on Sunday. She is survived and will forever live in her children, grandchildren, great and great-great grandchildren. Our mother is survived by two daughters, Louise Victoria Scott Robertson, and her husband, Leonard, and Rita Scott Forrest and her husband, George, a daughter-in-law, Maryana W. Scott. Her seven grandchildren are Valencia V. Scott, Louvenia Scott, Charles F. Ellis, Jr., Scott F. Ellis, George S. Forrest, Jr., David D. Forrest, and Alexis L. Forrest. To further the memory of her life, she is survived by seventeen great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchild. She is also survived by one sister, Virginia B. Slaughter, and two brothers, Calvin Brown and David Brown, two sisters-in-law, and numerous nieces, nephews, and family friends. “Death is the common lot of all and the strongest of us will soon be called away. It is well! Death is a friend not an enemy. It comes at the right time when it comes naturally . . .,” Frederick Douglass. So, while death has come to our mother at the age of 100, death came naturally even with the complications associated with Alzheimer’s. The importance of a good mother should never to be overlooked. In one breath, you say she is always there, and in another breath, you praise the first hand the touches your life, forms your views, morals, and the values that you embrace from the person whose universal name is the very embodiment of love- mama.

Missouri B. Scott

March 7, 1919 - June 28, 2019