Scott_Harry Owen_31 Oct 1901

Services Wednesday For Harry O. Scott

Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at the Pleasant view L.D.S. chapel for Harry Owen Scott, age 60, who died suddenly of a heart ailment early Sunday morning at his home in Pleasantview.

Services were conducted under the direction of the Malad Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 51 with H. V. Peden, Worshipful Grand Master, officiating.

Family prayer at the funeral home was offered by Albert B. Bush; invocation, Griff L. Jenkins; benediction, Clyde Hanson. Speakers were John J. Roderick and Bishop Leo H. Brown who also gave the obituary. Musical numbers were prelude and postlude, Mary Lynn Ipsen; vocal solo, Wm. Griff Jenkins; vocal with reading, Leora Brown and Marquerite Davis. Accompanists were Marguerite Ruegsegger and Iris Barker.

Flowers were carried by the Pleasantview ward Relief Society; Mrs. Hazel Yeates, president.

Casket bearers were H. V. Peden, Morgan W. Tovey, C. O. Nibert, Wm. Griff Jenkins, T. D. Jones and Marlo Lewis.

Interment was at the Sunset Lawn Memorial Park, Salt Lake City, with graveside rites conducted by the Argenta Lodge A.F. & A.M.

Mr. Scott was born Oct. 31, 1901, in Roscoe, Montana, a son of James and Ora Mosier Scott. He married Genevieve Scott on Nov. 27, 1928, in Salt Lake City.

He attended school at Columbus, Montana and enlisted in the United States Navy in 1920. He served as a recruiting officer in Salt Lake City, Utah and Billings, Montana and in 1932 was graduated from an Electrical Interior Communication school in Washington, D. C. The remainder of his active duty was spent aboard cruisers and submarines.

In 1941 he was aboard ship in Pearl Harbor when the Japs attacked and was later commended by the commanding officer for his courage and devotion to duty while in action against strong enemy aircraft, which were strafing and bombing, and torpedo attacks by submarines. He was also cited for the strenuous duty performed while at sea the next three days following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He also took part in the naval bombardment of Munda and Kiska.

In 1945 he was honorably released from active duty and in 1950 was retired after completing 30 years service. Since then, Mr. Scott made his home at Pleasantview and engaged in farming.

He is survived by his wife, Pleasantview; two daughters, Gloria Jane Whitby, Garden Grove, Calif.; Diana Harrison, Los Angeles, California; seven grandchildren; three sisters, Maude Glenn, Daisiann Potter, Blanche Herrington, all of Billings, Mont.; three brothers, Walter Scott, Billings; William Scott, Washougal, Washington; Fred Scott, Park City, Montana.