Submitted by: Dan Rich

Bessie O. Scott

June 2, 1930 - March 9, 1995

South Bend Tribune 3/14/1995

SOUTH BEND - Bessie O. Scott, 64, of Omaha, Neb., formerly of 1024 N. Brookfield St., died at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in Clarkson Hospital, Omaha. Mrs. Scott retired from El Campito Day Care Center. She was born June 2, 1930, in Memphis, Tenn., and lived in South Bend until December 1994.

In 1950, in South Bend, she married Willis Scott. He survives with four daughters, Vanessa Scott of Omaha, and Theresa Williamson Scott, Selena Scott and Nancy Scott, all of South Bend; five sons, Peter of Englewood, Calif., and Larry, Gary, Dennis and Dale, all of South Bend; 15 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a sister, Eula Johnson of South Bend; and two brothers, Lee Hicks and William Hicks, both of South Bend.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in Alford's Mortuary.