Ms. Macy Lorraine Scarlett

Lorraine was born and raised in Jacksonville having attended Assumption Catholic School and Bishop Kenny until her senior year when the family moved to Fruit Cove to be closer to her grandparents Henry and Addie Ortagus. In 1958 she graduated from Ketterlinus High School in St. Augustine. By 1960 Lorraine had her own car, lived in San Marco with three girlfriends in a rented apartment, and worked at Prudential Insurance Company. She loved music and dancing and would meet her future husband while out dancing. She was a homeroom mom during her children’s years at Loretto Elementary School. She would return to Prudential and also eventually worked at Wesley Manor and later the Naval Air Station in Orange Park. She was blessed to still be lifelong friends with many of her coworkers, and we are forever grateful for those friendships. She was also involved in the Florida Striders Track Club; never a runner, but part of an incredible support team at road race registration tables and each year helping coordinate food and drinks at the Striders River Run tent named after her husband. This group too became lifelong friends as they often traveled as a group throughout the USA.

Lorraine was known by several names throughout the years, the last of which was "Macy." After her husband Stan passed very unexpectedly in 2012, she began introducing herself as Macy. We don't know why, still don't know why. She just said, "Well that's my name." Stan and his side of the family and her Orange Park friends called her Lori while her parents, brother, and that side of the family (basically all of Mandarin and St. Augustine) called her Rainey. She was Aunt Rainey in Mandarin even if you weren't related. She was a wonderful host of many parties at her home (those in the 1970s were amazing), a great cook, and best baker. She kept the Coggin Honda Service Department where her son Ty has worked for 42 years fed with desserts each Christmas. She enjoyed a "deal" at TJ Maxx and dragged her adult children there often when she could no longer drive. Even with dementia she knew what price she was willing to pay or not pay. $9.99 was her favorite price. TJ Maxx was always followed by a slice of pizza and a Diet Coke at Renna's Pizza, where the manager always knew her order even when she couldn't remember how to order. She loved eating out and beach time with her girlfriends and as they can attest for her there was no such thing as too much butter. Her favorite role was those times when she could be a stay-at-home mom and later grandmother to Cooper, be it traveling down to Orlando to watch him play sports then tagging along with Dan and Darcy throughout the southeast to watch him play college baseball. Cooper was the end all be all for her. Throughout the struggle with dementia that's one face she never forgot. She always knew Cooper when he visited and for that we were blessed.

She was predeceased by her husband George Stanton (Stan) Scarlett IV. She is survived by brother Lawrence “Bubba” Wiles of Fruit Cove; her sister-in-law Gwendolyn Romaine Scarlett Saylor of Apex, North Carolina; sister-in-law Jessica “Penny” Scarlett, Tampa; son Stanton Tyson (Ty) Scarlett of Jacksonville, great-granddaughter Jocelyn Harris of New Mexico; daughter Darcy Scarlett Jeffers (Dan), of Orlando; grandson Cooper Daniel Jeffers (Giulia), great-granddaughter Aria Valor Jeffers of Eustis; and numerous much loved nieces and nephews in Florida and North Carolina.

The family wishes to acknowledge the outstanding care provided by Westminster at Julington Creek for the past three years, which included Memory Care, Rapid Recovery, Long-term Care, and Hospice Care since October. The Memory Care staff brought our mother back to life with all their activities, outings, therapy sessions, and love they had for our mom. They gave us an incredible “extra” two years which made it possible for mom to dance with her grandson at his wedding in 2024 and hold his first child one year later. She was able to “watch from heaven” this child’s first birthday party, being held on the day she passed.

Visitation will be held Saturday, May 16, 2026 from 12:00 – 1:00pm. A Catholic funeral mass will be held at 1:00 pm at St. Joseph’s Catholic Historic Church followed by graveside located directly behind the church. Food and beverages will be served at Hardage-Giddens Mandarin Chapel afterwards.