Scott Bauer

Scott Christian Bauer
Formerly Scott Lee Gibson
December 1, 1966 – November 8, 2022
Scott Lee Gibson was born on December 1, 1966, at the now-closed Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base in Cass County, Missouri, to Mayme Louise Nix Garcia Gibson and her husband, George Eldon Gibson. (DNA testing in May 2019 proved Scott's biological father is unknown.) He was his mother's third of three children. He legally changed his name to Scott Christian Bauer on November 7, 1994. He died on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.
Scott grew up in Dexter, Missouri, and graduated from Dexter High School in June 1985. He briefly attended two different community colleges but never graduated. He lived most of his adult life in Salt Lake City, Utah, and its suburbs. Scott thrived on socializing with his few close friends, as well as feasting on burgers, catfish, pizza, and steak whenever he could.
Prior to adulthood, Scott was always conservative and religiously active. He became less and less so as he got older. He accepted Jesus Christ as his personal savior in April 1999 while watching Columbine victim Rachel Scott's memorial service on cable news. He was baptized at Perkins Baptist Church in Perkins, Missouri, the next month. Ultimately, though, he completely lost faith in organized religion years before his death. Scott loved his New Living Translation of the Bible, which he read daily, and listening to contemporary Christian music on K-LOVE (klove.com) and Z88.3 (zradio.org). Scott also thoroughly enjoyed watching videos by Cory Asbury, Elevation Worship, Hillsong Worship and Young & Free, Jesus Culture, and other Christian artists.
Scott held many different jobs with many different employers throughout his life. Most recently he had been a live-in personal aide for Joseph Anthony Flaherty, a bipolar mental health patient with extreme anxiety, from May 2009 until he died unexpectedly in September 2021.
Scott was diagnosed with colon cancer in July 2020. He subsequently underwent colon resection surgery in September 2020, when eight inches of his colon including a substantial cancerous tumor were removed. Unfortunately, the cancer was later determined to have already entered the lymph system. In July 2021, Scott was told the cancer would be incurable and chemotherapy would extend his life only one to three years. Scott chose not to undergo chemotherapy.
Scott thanks everyone at Huntsman Cancer Hospital in Salt Lake City for their outstanding care, especially Ditty Bannon PA-C, Dr. Vaia Florou, and Zachary Jones RN. Scott also thanks Fr. Joseph Delka, John Lambert, and Natalie Zimmerman for their amazing help and support.
Preceded in death by his mother in June 1981, his stepfather in February 2018, and the only real "mom" he ever knew, Janice Muir Keele, in December 2020.
No funeral or memorial service will be held as directed in Scott's Last Will and Testament. His remains have already been aquamated (see AquamationInfo.com) at Tate Mortuary in Tooele, Utah, and interred at Memorial Redwood Cemetery located at 6500 South Redwood Road in West Jordan, Utah.