Roy K. Scites

Roy Kenneth Scites was born on May 23, 1927 in Verdunville, WV. Roy was the youngest of 7 children born to John Alfred and Elsie (Jordan) Scites. He attended a one room school house until moving to Michigan at the age of 9 with his mom and 2 brothers. The 4 of them moved into his sister and brother-in law’s 2 bedroom home. Roy dropped out of school in the 9th grade to help support his mother. He enlisted in the army in August 1945 to join his 3 brothers already serving in WWII. He served 18 months with 9 months being in South Korea. Upon returning home, he met the love of his life, Jane Gibson at Gratiot Ave Baptist Church. They were married and while raising their family of 3 sons and 3 daughters, Roy earned his GED. Roy was very active in the church, serving as a deacon, on the missions board and teaching Junior Church for 25 years. To most of the youth he was known as “Uncle Roy”.

Roy loved helping his family in many ways, building closets, fireplace surrounds, dry walling ceilings, pulling out large bushes. Roy and Jane loved vacationing. They have been on cruises, drove to California several times, most every Labor Day they walked the Mackinaw Bridge. On Sunday, Dec 7th 2014 they were able to go to a ceremony at Pearl Harbor for the 73rd anniversary of the attack. They spent a week touring O’ahu. Roy and Jane love the water; sometimes they just go to a park and sit in the van and look. This past July found them at a cabin on Lake Huron for a week vacation. Roy loved his cat Toby, making puzzles, working with wood, being Santa on Christmas Eve and all family gatherings. In July 2020 Roy and Jane celebrated 68 years of marriage just 1 month before they were both hospitalized on Aug 20th and 21st. Roy was 93 at the time of his home going on September 14th.

Roy and Jane were blessed with 6 children: Greg (Irene) , Randy (Janet), Colleen (Don) Krupinski, Connie Lynn, Brenda (Paul) Sherrit and Bryan; 13 grandchildren: Jill, Beth, Brittany (Lucas), Karly (Kevin) Tiffany, Kelly (Chris), Melissa (Tyler), Scott, Stephanie, Nathan, Joshua, Kenney and Andrew; and 9 great-grandchildren: Harvey, Hazel, Alec, Aria, Adalee, Elijah, Owen, Grace and Braxton. He was preceded in death by all his siblings, daughter Connie Lynn (1961), son Greg (2017) and granddaughter Beth (2005).

A Funeral Service will be held at 1:00 PM on Friday, October 9, 2020 at Cornerstone Baptist Church, 17017 E. Twelve Mile Rd., Roseville, MI 48066. Visitation at church begins at 11:00 AM. Roy's final resting place will be at Ellington Cemetery in Caro, Michigan.