Alfred Landon “Scotty” Scott, 85, died 30 June 2022 after a long and exciting life. Born in 1936 to Logan County’s late Henry Rush and Freda Bertha (Hetzel) Scott, Scotty hunted, trapped, and fished from boyhood; worked at Ohio Caverns and the Valley Hi ski trails; and spent many productive hours at the Scott family sawmill near Pickrelltown, scouting timber, operating saws, and constructing various buildings around West Liberty.
While attending Zanesfield-Monroe High School, Scotty earned his Varsity Z in basketball, acted, wrote, drummed with the band, achieved high grades, occasionally raised Cain and began his lifelong appreciation of cars, creating cherished memories, many of which included his buddy Donald Dearing.
After his 1954 graduation Scotty moved to Springfield, where he worked his way up from teller to vice president of First National Bank, served as Ohio Jaycee President from 1970-71, drove the Indy 500 track with the Corvette Club, and founded Universal Travel, visiting many lands, leading tours, and enabling others to expand their horizons.
Moving from Parkridge Acres to a six-acre property after he retired, he continued to exercise his talents in landscaping, holiday lighting, maintenance, collecting coins and antiques, and creating an astonishing array of folk art that included his highly desirable wood carvings with a hidden niche containing his “SCOTTTHECHAINSAWMAN” card, which advised, “Chain Saw Sculpture/ Bears And Birds And Other Forms But We Don’t Do No Unicorns/ Have Chain Saw Will Travel.”
Scotty was a wizard with numbers and anything mechanical. He also had a terrific sense of humor: a good joke showed his upper gold tooth, but a great joke also revealed his lower one. “Papaw” to his granddaughters, Scotty posed them with power tools, offered comforting nuggets of wisdom, and created a wonderland of indoor and outdoor adventure. He told fabulous stories of his youthful escapades, the veracity of which were independently verified in the summer of 1987 by his youngest daughter’s chance meeting with the offspring of one of his high school co-conspirators at a bus stop in Alexandria, Virginia.
Preceded in death by all of his siblings—Joe (Eleanor), Ray (Barb), Jimmy (Pam), Josephine (Warren Troyer), Carl, and JoAnn Davis — Scotty is survived by Mary (Hullinger), his wife of 65 years, son Rick (Suzanne Stewart), daughter Tammy (Sam Angelo), daughter Kim (Mark Derwent) and granddaughters Mary and Hannah Derwent. He is also survived by cousins Carmen and Byron (Nancy) Scott, brother-in-law Ed Davis, sisters-in-law Martha (Talmadge) Algren and Miriam (Ralph) Shaffer, many nieces/nephews, and their progeny.
As wished, he will be cremated without ceremony and his ashes scattered near a favorite location where he spent happy hours fishing as a boy. Special thanks to the fine staff at Wooded Glen who acted as Scotty’s pit crew, helping him cross the finish line in comfort and style.