Andrew R. Scott

SCOTT, Andrew Ross, age 90, of Rochester Hills, MI, died Thursday, February 3, 2011, at Crittenton Hospital. He was born May 3, 1920, in New York, NY to the late Thomas Dunlop Scott and Katherine McKean Scott. He grew up in Rye, NY and as an adult in NJ; 1945 to 1957 in Millis and in Sherborn, MA from 1957 until 1989. He retired to Fearrington Village, NC in 1989 and moved to the Piedmont Retirement Center, Thomasville, NC in 1999. In 2004 he relocated to Sanctuary at Bellbrook in Rochester Hills. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1939-1945 where he served as a First Lieutenant in the 249th . He graduated from NY University with a BS in Industrial Engineering in 1954, and is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Alpha Pi Mu Engineering Honor Societies and past Chairman of the Society of Die Casting Engineers. He was a shipbuilder at the Thomas D. Scott Shipbuilding Yard and was employed for 36 years as an Industrial Engineer with Stella Products in NJ, the L.E. Mason Co. in Boston, MA and the Cambridge Tool and Mfg. Co. in Billerica, MA, retiring in 1983. He was an active member of the Millis Church of Christ and the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Sherborn, MA serving as a Deacon and as a member of the church choirs. He was a member of the United Church, Chapel Hill and First Presbyterian Church in Thomasville, NC. He was the loving husband of the late Mary Alice Barker Scott, who died in 2001. He is survived by two daughters; Mrs. Marykate Scott Bayer and her husband, Peter, of Naperville, IL and Gwenllian Barker Scott of Rochester Hills, MI; two sons, Andrew Ross Scott, Jr. of South Deerfield, MA and Thomas Dunlop Scott, II, of Seymour, CT. Also surviving are his brother, Thomas Dunlop Scott and his wife, Mary of Sarasota, FL and his three granddaughters, Shannon-Lee Vanora Scott, Gina Katherine Scott and Kaitlyn Scott Davis. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, February 19, 2011, at 11:00 a.m. at University Presbyterian Church, 1385 S. Adams Road, Rochester Hills, MI, 48309, the Rev. Dr. George Portice and Rev. Marianne Grano, officiating. Inurnment will be in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, NY at a later date. Memorial contributions in Andrew’s name may be directed to Sanctuary at Bellbrook, 875 W. Avon Road, Rochester Hills, MI 48307 or to University Presbyterian Church. Arrangements entrusted to PIXLEY FUNERAL HOME of Rochester, MI. www.pixleyfuneralrochester.com