Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
3:33 pm Monday, January 11, 2016

Carolyn Sue Hester Scott

Carolyn Sue Hester Scott, age 76, Russellville passed away Jan. 6 2016.

There is a memorial on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 at Akins Funeral Home from 5-8p.m. with a brief service.

Memorial service will be at 5:30p.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 flowers 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 is preceded in death by her parents Wilmer and Anner Hester, brother, Leon Hester, 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, Stephanie Moore and Jimmy. Grandchildren, Liza and Tom Barkley Scott, Ali Beth, and Katelynn Scott, Joshua and Tyler Medina, and Cheri Gober and Shanon, Great grandchildren, Brandon and Anna Grace Medina, Alika Medina. Daughtery and Berkley Gober.

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