Carolyn Sue Hester Scott, age 76, passed away Jan. 6 2016.
There is a memorial today at Akins Funeral Home from 5-8 p.m. with a brief service
following at 5:30 p.m. in the chapel of the funeral home.
Carolyn was a member of the Baptist church. She graduated from Belgreen High School and Hamilton Technical College where she received her LPN degree. She worked at Red Bay Nursing Home for 17 years and was voted nurse of the the year on May 7, 1990. She loved to grow flower gardens. She loved watching her son, Michael, and grandson, Tyler, play basketball. She was called “Granny” by the grandchildren and their friends from school. She fed two generations of school friends of her children and grandchildren. Her granddaughters loved cheering, and she loved to watch all her grandchildren in sports. Her granddaughter Cheri performed in a Hulla Bowl Game in Hawaii in which she got to go and watch.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Wilmer and Anner Hester; brother, Leon Hester; and sisters, Ruthie Mae Taylor, Estelle Entrekin, and Lucille Nelson.
She is survived by her husband, Bill Scott; children, Tim and Ann Scott, Michael and Sissy Scott, and Stephanie Moore and Jimmy; sisters, Mary Kauffman, Martha Sellers, and husband Albert, and Patsy Price and husband, Danny; grandchildren, Liza and Tom Barkley Scott, Ali Beth and Katelynn Scott, Joshua and Tyler Medina, and Cheri Gober and Shanon; and great-grandchildren, Brandon and Anna Grace Medina, Alika Medina Daughtery, and Berkley Gober.
The family wishes to thank David and Mary Jo Motes, Tami Thompson, and Akins Funeral Home.
Akins Funeral Home assisted the family.
