LELA SCOTT

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Lela Scott of Sikeston was held Saturday at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. The Revs. Clinton Wofford and Robert Burke officiated, with burial in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery.

Scott, 92, died Thursday, Feb. 13, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.

She was born April 8, 1899, in East Prairie, daughter of T.M. and Mary Rankin Hill. She married Graham W. Scott in July 1943 in West Los Angeles, Calif. He died in 1973.

Scott was a retired teacher, and taught in Illinois schools many years. She was a member of Nelson United Methodist Church in East Prairie, Kingshighway Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, and Retired Teachers Association of Missouri.

She was a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, and member of its Copper Dome Society.

Survivors include a sister, Arpa Lewis of Sikeston, and three cousins, including Dorothy Clayton of Sikeston.

She was preceded in death by two sisters and a brother.