Ruth Scott

Funeral Services were held 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, August 8, 1990 at Higby Mortuary. Interment was held in the Aurora Cemetery.

OBITUARY: Ruth Scott

Mary Ruth Scott, the daughter of Frank and Emma (Lyon) Logue, was born at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, on April 6, 1896, and passed away at Aurora, Nebraska, on August 6, 1990, at the age of 94 years and 4 months.

She attended Ft. Wayne Public Schools, then went to Ft. Wayne Normal School for two years, which qualified her to teach school. Her first school was a rural Ft. Wayne country school. During World War I, she worked in Washington D.C. for the War Department. Because of the flu epidemic that ravaged the country in 1918, she decided to return to Ft. Wayne.

In 1920, she attended the University of Chicago for two years.

In 1922, she moved to Wyoming, spending the summer on a ranch, and later taught at the old Central School in Casper. In 1924, she was teaching at an oil camp 40 miles north of Casper.

On December 25, 1924, she married H.W. Scott, a dentist practicing in Casper. When the school board found she had married, they fired her. The Scotts took them to court, and the board was required to pay her salary through the end of the year. They homesteaded 8 miles north of Casper, until “Proving up”, when they moved to Casper. They had one son Arthur Lee Scott, born June 15, 1927.

Mrs. Scott taught piano lessons for a year until she got a job teaching at Lincoln School in north Casper. Later she taught at Willard School until retirement at age 65.

In pursuit of a degree she attended Colorado State Teachers College in Greeley, Colorado, and the University of Wyoming, where she got her B.A. in 1947.

She loved music and had served as organist for several churches in Casper.

Art was a hobby in later years. She attended schools at Banff, Canada; U.B.C. at Vancouver, B.C.; University of California at Berkley; The London Art School (England); school at Penznace, England. She made 5 trips to Europe form 1954 to 1972, all by boat.

In the fall of 1968, she moved to Aurora to be near her son and his family. In January of 1984, she moved to the Hamilton Manor.

Ruth was a member of the Aurora Christian Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents; 2 brothers, Ivan Logue and Hollis Logue; a sister Esther Enslen, and a sister Audrey Ruth who died in infancy.

Those who remain to cherish her memory are son Lee, and his wife Edith of Aurora; 3 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren and nephews.