Richard R. Scott

Richard Ray Scott was born on May 4 1934 in Mine Hill New Jersey. The son of Melba Mae Nichols and Richard Ray Scott. His father, Richard, was killed in the Hercules armament factory explosion on September 12, 1940. His mother Melba, who eventually remarried a combat veteran of WWII and Korea, moved the family to Aberdeen Maryland where they settled.

An accomplished baseball and football player, Richard graduated from Aberdeen Highschool in 1951. After attending the University of Maryland, he volunteered to join the United States Army. There, he served in multiple capacities and deployments including postings at the US military base in Kitzingen Germany and frontline deployments along the Czechoslovakian border during the early days of the Cold War. He received multiple citations during this period, including, but not limited to, being awarded the Outstanding Soldier Award.

Upon his honorable discharge from the Army, Richard entered the bearing industry as a salesman. In one of the oldest, and most mature industries on Earth, he immediately established himself as a topflight industrial salesman, offering his talents to several of the world’s largest and most influential bearing manufacturers. His successes in that regard led him to form his own independent industrial sales representation company, E&D Scott & Associates Ltd in 1984, named after himself and his 5-year-old son Eric. Throughout over 60 years of experience in the bearing industry, he received a number of awards including being named “Business Person of the Year” for the state of Florida in 1995, as well as being gifted the keys to the city from the Mayor of Steyr Austria in 2009 for outstanding contributions to the Austrian economy.

Boisterous, gregarious, and with an insatiable appetite for life and experience, Richard set loose on the world. From Germany to Austria, Italy to Turkey, Slovakia to Russia, Korea and beyond, Richard utilized his innate, and almost mythical people skills to forge lifelong friendships with suppliers and customers alike. Through the sincerity of his words, and the kindness of his actions, and with absolutely no distinctions made over gender, race, or class, he fostered a sense of love and camaraderie among all. It is for these reasons that his passing will be profoundly felt by those who knew him all over the world.

Richard is survived by his loving sister, Mary Lou, his loving brother David, his nieces, Karen, Stephanie, Katie, Kristin, Missy, and Laura, his nephews, Bob, Tom, Mark, and Ricky. Most importantly he is cherished and remembered by his three devoted children, Eric, Ashlee, and Jennie, his beloved sons-in-law, Brian and TJ, his beloved daughter in law Holly, and the star of his life, the twinkle in his eye, his granddaughter Sophia.

“He was a man. Take him for all in all. For I shall never look upon his like again”

Shakespeare, Hamlet

Private services will be held on Thursday, November 6th at the Saratoga National Cemetery, with full military procession.

A celebration of life with friends and family will be determined at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests all donations to be directed toward the nonprofit Amyloid Research Consortium. https://arci.org/