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Scott, Naomi Irene
Bloomfield/Bristol: Naomi Irene Scott inspired her children and grandchildren with love of music, passion for the beauty of nature and growing plants, and deep concern for social justice. Throughout her life she worked in service to others, as a teacher in Appalachia, as a missionary and minister's wife, and as a social worker in Monroe County. She remained steadfast to her faith and her belief in that of God in every person all through her long life.
She was born Naomi Irene George on November 1st, 1918. Naomi liked to say that she learned to dance before she learned to walk, with her father playing the piano. She met her future husband, Lewis Harvey Scott, at Sidney High School in Sidney, NY, and went on to study home economics and nutrition at Cornell University. After Lewis completed his seminary years, they were married on June 6, 1943 and embarked on their mission work with the Hopi Indians in Arizona. After Arizona, Naomi and Lewis ministered with small country churches in their home state of New York. In each place they lived Lewis and Naomi had a small farm with a generous organic garden and milking goats. Her children remember that during their growing years she often called them to enjoy the colors of a sunset, the rich taste of homemade whole wheat bread, or the thoughtful message of a poetic prayer. She taught us by example to take joy in God's creation. After her youngest child started school she began her work in the Monroe County Department of Social Services, teaching homemaking skills to young mothers. After her retirement 22 years later, Naomi devoted herself to her grandchildren, including caring for her young grandsons while their mother worked. This time in her life was a fulfillment of her lifelong dream of community and family living in a three generation household.
Naomi Irene George passed from this life to the arms the Lord on September 20th 2008 just before her 90th birthday. She leaves behind her four children: Larry Scott, Daniel Scott, Ann McCarthy, Karen Preston; eight grandchildren: Rebecca Thomas, Aaron Terruli, Kelly Crowner Scott, Jason Crowner Scott, Brian McCarthy and Neil McCarthy; and five great grandchildren: Bradley, Spencer and Mallory Thomas, Aki Yano, and Tara Bosnic-Terruli.
Calling hours will be held 2pm to 4pm Saturday, September 27, 2008 at the Johnson-Kennedy Funeral Home, 2 South Avenue, East Bloomfield, NY. A memorial service will be held at 3p.m. Sunday, September 28, 2008 at the United Church of Christ of Honeoye, 8758 Main St, Honeoye, NY. Her family would be grateful for donations to American Friends Service Committee [http://www.afsc.org/ ] or Heifer International [http://www.heifer.org/ ] in memory of Naomi Irene Scott.

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Published by Rochester Democrat And Chronicle on Sep. 23, 2008.

Memories and Condolences
for Naomi Scott

8 Entries

Ann McCarthy

September 29, 2008

From the memorial service:
"We each live but a moment in the life of the world.
A pebble may fly and drop into a pool in the blink of an eye.
Consider:
The ripples of the pebble's passing extend ever widening, touching the branch, the lily, the sunbeam dancing on the surface, the fish underneath, even the shore.
Each time we gaze at the beauty of a sunset, dig into the soil to make a garden, appreciate a well written passage, look for the truth in a complex jumble of ideas, forgive a person who has wronged us, hold to a rational view in the face of emotional rhetoric, sing 'Joy to the World', gather together in love as a family, pray with absolute faith, ...these are the ripples, the blessings, we have learned from Naomi Scott.
She did not stint her caring.
She did not ever abandon her heart.
She did not hold back her vision and learning.
And so her values and faith, instilled in her children, and so in their children, are carrying on now to a fourth generation.
Our Father, we look to you in faith and pray, Thy Will be done.
Take our mother into thy Loving Arms and grant her now Thy Joy."

Kelly Scott

September 29, 2008

Naomi Irene Scott was my grandmother and last living grandparent. Although I only got to meet her in person once she will always be very dear to me. What I do know about her is that she was a amazing and inspiring women who set an example of healthy living.
My father Dan Scott (her youngest son) still to this day grows a organic garden and has shared with me a love for good organic food. This is what has been passed down from her to me and now I get to carry this light and share it with others. Someday I hope to have an organic garden and raise my own goat's just like my Grammy and Pappy did when my father was just a boy.

Aaron Terruli

September 26, 2008

A life-long teetotaler, Grammie had 16 classifications of household disposal, recycling years before it was in fashion. She continued her university studies in nutrition, finding a dietary cure for the symptoms of diabetes, at least for Poppie, and managed herself to live nearly 40 years with severe food allergies on dietary supplements, green beans, brown rice, peanut butter, egg whites, wheat bran, yogurt, and goats milk (from an animal not in heat), with no more than a thimble of anything else. She had a will of steel to go with her heart of gold. I know, because for most of my youth she managed to devote a great deal of one-on-one time to my upbringing, along with running a working farm, looking after her husband, and carrying on a full time profession. Not an overindulgent grandmother, her determination to instill discipline and hard work, correct grammar and penmanship, fine attention to detail and conscientious performance, and a fiercely positive attitude manifested itself in oven buzzer-timed chores, oral and written drills, exercises in thoroughness, and a constant refusal to accept gloominess, sarcasm, poor diction, negative generalizations, temper tantrums, or impolite objections. She was a woman of strong character. She was loving, generous, kind, warm, and seriously strict in her adherence to the straight and narrow. She loved God. She and her husband wrote jolly little songs, which they sang to and with their children, and which are still loved by her great-grandchildren. When singing with family, she glowed. She loved nature, and had a wonderful garden inside and outside of her farmhouse. She did not curse, though she permitted her husband to say dog-gone-it at points of extreme frustration. I think her favorite flowers were begonias.
My name is Robin Redbreast,
I hop on your lawn.
I help to keep your garden,
So healthy and strong.

Becky Thomas

September 24, 2008

Grammy was my last living grandparent. She lived a full life. My memory of her is that she was always looking out for Poppy and taking care of others. She was a kind soul.

Pat and Allen Miner

September 24, 2008

I can remember family reunions at Aunt Hattie and Uncle Clint's farm on the Covered Bridge Road in Unadilla. All of us kids rode in a cart pulled by the pony "Jim Dandy' I can remember the boys (Larry and Dan) waving to their parents and the big smiles that brought to Aunt Naomi and Uncle Lew's faces. May you all feel God's warm Loving Arms wrapped tightly around you and may He give you Peace, Love and Strength in the coming months. Sending much love from Texas.

Ann McCarthy

September 24, 2008

For all of you far away who cannot join us in the memorial service, here is one of the special songs we have selected for the service because it recalls to us Naomi's personal faith. The beautiful Irish melody reminds us of the Irish connections in our family and Naomi's newest great-granddaughter Tara.

Traditional words are found at:
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/
b/t/btmvison.htm

and a beautiful music version is here:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=5XZ3ja-quhA

Be sure to cut and paste the two lines of each url together into your browser.

Dave Terruli

September 23, 2008

We will all miss Naomi Scott for her
lovely smile and positive attitude ,
she always gave to those who needed her help and she helped many . If we had an army of Naomi's
we could save this world tomorrow ,
and perhaps that is what it is going to take .
She lived a full life and a good life
and surely the Lord will have a mansion for her and Lewis there in
Heaven .
God Bless You Naomi

Terry Mccarthy

September 23, 2008

I will remember Naomi as a friendly smiling woman who always offered her help and had interest in others.

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