Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
4:12 pm Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Rosie Odell Scott

Rosie Odell Scott

January 21, 2014

Rosie Odell Scott, 98, died Tuesday, January 21, 2014, at Generations of Red Bay.

She was born December 11, 1915, in Franklin County. She was a housewife, worked on the farm and was a factory worker. She was a member of Pleasant Ridge Missionary Baptist Church in Red Bay.

Services were held on Wednesday, Jan. 22, at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel, Red Bay, with Bro. Eugene Digby, Jeff Gregory and Derrick Sumeral officiating. Burial was in Berry Cemetery, Red Bay.

Survivors are four children, Junior Scott and wife, Estelle, and John Robert Scott and wife, Peggy, all of Red Bay, Oniece Gregory and husband, Billy, of Greenbriar, Tenn., and Carol Bettis and husband, John, of Leeds; 15 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; 23 great-great-grandchildren; 1 great-great-great-grandchild; daughter-in-law, Margaret Scott of Red Bay; and three sisters-in-law, Elizabeth Scott, Artie Vee Reed and Eloise Mobley.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Alik Scott; two sons, John Thomas Scott and Clarence Scott; her parents, John A. Patterson and Polley Bentley Patterson; three brothers, J.B. Patterson, Milton Patterson and Archie Patterson; and two sisters, Bertha Humphries and Edna Richardson.

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