Kathryn Louise Scott

Kathryn Louise Hague Scott, also known as Mor Mor to her grandkids, passed away in the early hours of January 19, 2015. She was 83 years old. Kathy was proud of her Norwegian heritage as it shaped her into a hardworking, adventurous, family-oriented, and civically-involved mother, grandmother and great grandmother.

Kathyrn L. Hague was born in Yakima, Washington on December 8, 1931. She grew up in the Yakima Valley where she learned the value of hard work while helping her parents' farm their “medicinal hop” fields. Her time in the fields shaped the rest of her life as she learned the hot summer nights laboring in the hop fields were not her calling. Kathy poured her energy into academics, graduating from Yakima High School with honors.

Her brief stint at a doctor’s office during high school led Kathy on the biggest adventure of her life as it inspired her to go to University of Portland to obtain a nursing degree. While at University of Portland, she met the love of her life Edward Scott. Their first meeting occurred when a friend asked Kathy to go on a double date to Washington Park to play tennis. Little did Kathy know that the “Ed” on the double date would be none other than her old University of Portland Logic professor, Edward M. Scott. She put aside the “B” she obtained in his class and began to fall in love with the handsome, humorous, and loving man. Ed swept her off her feet and they wed on February 20, 1954.

Shortly thereafter Kathy became a mother. It is in this role that she truly flourished into her true self. She instilled in her five children the importance of faith, family, and fun. According to family legend, she once forced her children to go to confession for "stealing" peaches from the neighbor's trees. She believed that each gray hair was a lesson taught to her kids about the importance of family being friends. She was even willing to put aside her matriarchal persona when playing charades in the name of a good time. She loved Lincoln City as much as Norway and chocolate as much as lutefisk. She made the best Sunday dinners west of the Mississippi, was wicked with the jigsaw puzzles, and did the daily word search in ink. She laughed like a child long after she was one and never met a novel she did not like.

Even with her extended family, she was able to find time to be involved with the community and her profession. She managed Ed's private psychology practice throughout his career. It was also her belief that it is our personal responsibility to better society if the opportunity arises. And boy did the she make opportunities arise. Kathy championed woman’s rights, as she was the first woman to sit on the Tigard School Board; a position she held from 1974 to 1981. She became the Oregon School Board Association President in 1981. She had a long-term commitment to United Way and was a member the Boundary Commission from 1982 to1988. During this time, Kathy also worked with Ed on The International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology where she was the managing editor and editorial assistant.

She is survived by five children: Kathleen Hollingsworth, Mike Scott (wife Laurie Scott), Maureen Miller (husband Mike Miller), Tim Scott (wife Chris Scott), and Molly Leithold (husband Tim Liethold). She is survived by fifteen grandchildren: Edward Buz Hollingsworth, Jolen Hollingsworth, Katie Jo Johnson, Damien Johnson, Stephen Scott, Matt Scott, Hogan Miller, Carson Miller, Andrew Miller, Tyler Shelburne, Harrison Shelburne, Michael Pellessier, John Pellessier, Dustin Leithold, and Megan Leithold. She is survived by five great grandchildren: Elizabeth Kathleen Hollingsworth, Josie Hollingsworth, Maddie Hollingsworth, Wendie Hollingsworth, and James Edward Johnson. She is preceded in death by: her husband Edward M. Scott, Molly’s first husband Drew Pellessier, and her great grandchild Marian Louise Johnson.

Kathy’s Mass of Christian Burial is being held on January 24, 2015 at St. Michaels. The family suggests any contributions in her name to be made to: Edward M. Scott and Jack E. Keener Psychiatry Student Fellowship at OHSU