St. Clair County Obits

LENA MARIE SCOTT

Clinton Daily Democrat
April 1996
Lena Marie Grimes Scott was born October 26, 1918, in Clinton, to Charles Arthur and Mary Emma Winkler Grimes. She died March 31, 1996 at the Overland Park Place Retirement Center in Overland Park, Kansas. Lena was married to Lonnie Scott on September 7, 1937.
For several years they operated Scott's Camp which was located near the county line bridge on the Osage River in St. Clair County. In 1947 they also opened a general store which served the local area until 1968 when the Truman dam project purchased most of the surrounding area.
Arthur, Kay and Gary had the unique privilege of growing up in the center of activity around the camp and store. Their first home was a small two room log cabin Lonnie had built shortly after 1932. Later they all moved into living quarters attached to the back of the store.
The store continued to be home until it was closed in 1968. The nest was empty and roots were torn out. Shortly thereafter, Lonnie and Lena moved to a rural area near Yukon, Oklahoma, where they built a
new home.
Lena continued to live there after Lonnie's death in 1974. She formed many new and lasting friendships in the area which she enjoyed so much until the fatal illness which forced her to come to the Overland Park, Ks. area to be near her oldest son. She moved into the Overland Park Place Retirement Center which she greatly enjoyed until her death.
Lena was preceded in death by her husband Lonnie; her parents Charles and Mary (Winkler) Grimes; three
brothers, Orville, Bill and Roy; one sister, Viola Grimes, and two grandsons, Tevis and Terry Scott.
She is survived by sons Arthur and his wife Ellen Scott of Overland Park, Kansas, and Gary and his wife Joan
Scott of Urich; one daughter Diane Kay Goodloe of Bonita Springs, Florida; two granddaughters, Arleen
and Teresa Scott, and two grandsons, Dr. Jeff Goodloe and Mark Goodloe, other relatives and friends.