MRS. SCOTT

Published 9:33 am Friday, December 8, 2017

WAVERLY, Ala. — Mrs. Gracie Lue (Cindy) Scott, 104, of Waverly died Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika.

Funeral services will be held at Mt. Pelia Baptist Church, Waverly on Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 2 p.m. CST with Rev. Edward Milner officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. The remains will lie in state at the church from 1 p.m. CST  until the funeral hour. Public viewing will be at Vines Funeral Home, Friday, December 8, 2017 from 1 to 6 p.m. CST.

Mrs. Scott was born in Waverly on May 6, 1913 to the late Robert and Mary Frances Humphrey Minniefield. She was a faithful member of Mt. Pelia Baptist Church, where she served for many years as a Sunday School teacher and director of the Sunbeam Department. She was noted for singing in the choir and working in the Ebenezer District.

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Mrs. Scott was preceded in death by her husband, Roosevelt Scott and her son, James Sherrill. She is survived by her four daughters: Mary Shaw of Camp Hill, Rosie Nell Scott and Mae Rose Briggs, Queens, N.Y. and Margaret (Eddie) Webb, Phenix City; two sons: Richard (Estelita) Scott, Loachapoka and Nathaniel Scott, Waverly.

Her extended family includes Sarah Dark of Haw River, N.C.; Johnny Scott, Betty Mosby and Willie (Dorothy) Scott all of Auburn; Early George (Patricia) Milner and Shirley (Rodney) Taylor, all of Camp Hill; Clifford Milner, Dadeville, Bobby (Julie) Milner, Atlanta, Ga.; seventeen grandchildren, seventeen great grandchildren and a host of cousins, friends, and a caregiver, Shirley Vickerstaff. Special thanks goes to Lee Russell Council and Home Care of East Alabama Medical Center.

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Vines Funeral Home, Inc., LaFayette is handling the arrangements.