02/17/2009
Name: Lloyd E. Scott
Last Residence: 50265 West Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
Born: 1 Oct 1918
Died: 17 Feb 2009
LLOYD E. SCOTT
West Des Moines
Lloyd E. Scott, 90, of West Des Moines, died Tuesday at Iowa Methodist Medical Center.
"Scotty," as he was known to his legion of friends, retired in 1983 from a career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farmers Home Administration. At his retirement he was chief of community development, responsible for helping Iowa communities build safe water systems, golf courses and other quality-of-life improvements. He played a key role in the development of southern Iowa's Rathbun Regional Water Association, one of the nation's largest rural water systems.
He was born in 1918 in Alliance, Nebraska, where his parents had homesteaded a small farm. The family later moved to another farm near Martin, South Dakota, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. While in high school, he moved to Knoxville, Iowa, to live with an uncle who was a veterinarian. He graduated from Knoxville High School.
He attended barber college in Denver and worked as a barber before joining the Army in World War II. He was assigned to a military police unit and was discharged as a staff sergeant. While on leave from the Army in Knoxville, he met Elizabeth Jepson, who would become his wife of 62 years. They had one daughter, Mary Scott Wegner, of Des Moines. Betty died in 2006.
With the aid of the G.I. bill and his barbering skills, he graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in animal husbandry. He worked in vocational rehabilitation on the Veterans Hospital farm in Knoxville for several years, then began his career with the USDA. Scotty's Farmers Home Administration career took him and his family to Creston, Newton, Centerville and finally to the state office in Des Moines in 1966.
In addition to his daughter, Mary, Scotty is survived by Mary's husband, Michael Wegner; grandsons Scott, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Ted, a student at Luther College in Decorah; a sister-in-law and many nieces and nephews.
The family will receive visitors at Dunn's Funeral Home, 2121 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, from 4 to 6 p.m. on Friday. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Dunn's.
A private graveside service at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Council Bluffs will be scheduled later.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be sent to the Centerville Project Pride community betterment fund, PO Box 1113, Centerville, IA 52544.
ILES Dunn's Chapel
2121 Grand Ave.