SCOTT, ROBERT HENRY “BOB” FORMERLY OF MILO AND CHAMPION PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY MARCH 16, 1993 AT EXTENDICARE, VULCAN AT THE AGE OF 81 YEARS.
BOB IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE THORA OF VULCAN, A DAUGHTER LA REE (BUD) GROVES OF CHAMPION, A SON BOBBY AND HIS WIFE SARAH OF LETHBRIDGE, SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, TWO BROTHERS IRWIN AND SYLVIA OF EDMONTON AND FRED AND BERNICE OF PENTICTON, TWO SISTERS BEATRICE (ROYAL) RUGGLES OF THREE HILLS AND JOANNE (HARLAN) HANSON OF TURNER VALLEY, A SISTER-IN-LAW MYRTLE TUANY OF CRESTON, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
HE WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS PARENTS DAVID AND ELIZABETH SCOTT AND THREE BROTHERS WALTER AT VANCOUVER, NEVILLE AT CRESTON AND FRANK AT CHAMPION, AND A GRANDSON BLAINE GROVES.
BOB CAME TO THE CHAMPION AREA AT A YOUNG AGE. HE TRIED HIS HAND AT VARIOUS JOBS AND ON NUMEROUS FARMS IN THE DISTRICT. AS JOBS WERE HARD TO COME BY, HE DID WHAT EVER HE COULD. HE ALSO WORKED IN THE COAL MINES AND EVEN TRIED BRONC RIDING, WHICH WAS A SHORT LIVED CAREER.
IN 1939 HE MARRIED THORA WELLMAN AT FORT MACLEOD. THEY MOVED TO CALGARY WHERE BOB DROVE FOR BREWSTER BUS LINES BETWEEN CALGARY AND BANFF. THEY THEN RETURNED TO THE FARM AT CHAMPION FOR A BRIEF STAY, THEN ON TO FOREMOST AND NEMISKAM AREA WHERE HE OPERATED A SUCCESSFUL WATKINS BUSINESS. IN 1948 THEY RETURNED TO THE MILO DISTRICT WHERE BOB FARMED WITH HIS FATHER-IN-LAW RAY WELLMAN. HE LATER PURCHASED A FARM NEARBY AND CONTINUED TO WORK WITH RAY. HE LOVED FARMING AND CATTLE AND WORKED AT IT FOR MANY YEARS. THEY MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE AND CONTINUED TO BE IN TOUCH WITH THE FARM ACTIVITIES UNTIL HIS HEALTH DEMANDED ANOTHER CHANGE, SO HE MOVED TO CLARESHOLM EXTENDICARE. THEN IN 1991 HE MOVED TO VULCAN EXTENDICARE WHERE HE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
BOB LOVED HIS FAMILY, FARMING, RODEO AND TRAVELLING. HE WAS AN AVID READER, READING MOSTLY WESTERN STORIES. HE HAD A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM AND WILL BE SADLY MISSED, BY THEM.
FUNERAL SERVICE MONDAY MARCH 22, 1993 AT 11 A.M. AT CHAMPION UNITED CHURCH WITH FRANK JOHNSON L.M. OFFICIATING. INTERMENT AT 3:45 AT MOUNTAIN VIEW MEMORIAL GARDENS, 17 AVE. AT GARDEN RD. S.E. CALGARY.
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