C.W. "Scotty" Scott

C.W. “Scotty� Scott, 80, of Buffalo, Iowa, passed from this world into glory, surrounded by his loved ones Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at Genesis Medical Center, West Central Park, Davenport. After learning he was in the advance stages of cancer, he commented: “If love could take care of this, I would be cured.� Funeral services to celebrate Scotty’s life will be 1:00 p.m. Thursday, April 15, 2010 at the Halligan McCabe DeVries Funeral Home, 614 Main Street, Davenport. Burial will take place in Rose Hill Cemetery, Buffalo. Visitation will be 11:00 a.m. until the time of the service Thursday at the funeral home. Scotty was born March 4, 1930, to Clifton Wright Scott and Amanda Belle Curry of Adair Co., Breeding, Kentucky. He served in the Air Force and was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada. After being discharged from the Air Force, C.W. went to Iowa to seek employment. In Iowa he met his future wife, Dolores Coppinger while on a blind date. They were married in Rock Island, IL on May 29, 1954 with Dwayne and Jeannette Hicks as their witnesses. C.W. was employed by Oscar Mayer for 39 years, built and operated Scotty’s Car Wash in Buffalo, Iowa for 30 years. He loved gardening and sharing the bounty of his garden with others. Conversation was his hobby. Scotty loved his homeplace in Kentucky and enjoyed the relationships he had with relatives and friends. Many of you may have seen Scotty on the 75th Anniversary commercial for the Family Credit Union. The hard times of the Great Depression kept Scotty from receiving the formal education he sought. School was traded for working in the fields to help his widowed mother. Over and over he stressed the importance of an education. In lieu of flowers, a memorial fund will be set up to help facilitate his driven desire to see his grandchildren college-educated. A loving husband and father, Scotty viewed his grandchildren as his legacy and he took much pride in them. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Dolores; daughters, Sheila (Chuck) Mesick, Liane (Bill) Seals, of Davenport, Maureen McCartney, Plymouth, MN, Regina (Tom) Willich, Bettendorf, his grandchildren, Stella Shumaker, Amanda and Scott (Silvia) McCartney, Taylor, Jordan, Payton, and Paul Shumaker, Dillion, Catlin, and Sean Willich, Madeline and Olivia Ousley; a great granddaughter, Anna Maureen McCartney; siblings, Cortez Scott, Buffalo, Iowa, Charlcie (Delbert) Gray, Glasglow, KY, Lorene (Dick) Morris, Litchfield, KY., a brother-in-law Delvin (Erma) Coppinger, Oskaloosa, IA He was preceded in death by his parents, mother-in-law and father-in-law, siblings, Inez Lacy, Orell Jones, Maze Scott; infant siblings, Mary Agnes and Elizabeth Scott; son-in-law, Paul A. Shumaker, and sister-in-law, Mary Ann Coppinger, brother-in-law, Gene Coppinger. The family wishes to extend a special thank you to the physicians and nurses, and to the staff of the Oncology Unit at Genesis West for the friendships and the comfort and care they showed to Scotty during his illness and also to Mesick Family Chiropractic.