Mrs. Mildred Kemmer Scott

Funeral services for Mrs. Mildred Kemmer Scott, 94, of Cookeville, will be conducted Wednesday morning June 18th at 11am in the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home with Rev. Rebecca Larson officiating. Interment will follow in the Farley/Scott Cemetery.

Mrs. Scott died Monday morning June 16th, 2003 in the NHC of Cookeville.

Mrs. Scott was born July 5th, 1908 in the Grassy Cove Community of Cumberland County, Tennessee and was the daughter of the late James Andrew and Nannie Wilson Kemmer.

Mrs. Scott graduated from Cumberland County Elementary Schools and attended boarding school in Harriman, TN and and Cumberland Mountain School, Crossville. She graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1930 with a B.S. in Home Economics and received a M.A. Degree at the University of Tennessee in 1937. In 1942 she did a year of post-graduate work with a Rockefeller Scholarship at the University of Chicago.

She has taught school and served as Supervisor for Home Economics Clubs and taught for a number of years at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She also worked with the U.T. Agricultural Extension Service and served two years as Head of Tennessee Tech's Home Economics Department.

Mrs. Scott has been active working with Girl Scouts, PTA organizations, the Putnam County Farm Bureau, in establishing the Plateau Mental Health Center, and has worked with United Way and with Cooperative Utilities in rural areas.

She and her late husband owned and operated the Joe Scott Truck & Implement Company in Cookeville until their retirement.

Mrs. Scott was a member of Cookeville First United Methodist Church, the American Association of University Women and the Democratic Party.

In addition to her parents, she was preceeded in death by her husband, Olon Joe Scott; sister, Jane Hale; and three brothers, T.J. Kemmer, Dave Kemmer, and James Andrew Kemmer Jr.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Permelia & Danny Elmore; grandchildren, Tara Elmore of Baltimore, Maryland, Celeste and Nikki Elmore both of Cookeville; two sisters, Virginia Rowell of Crab Orchard, Tn and Sue Lansford of Crossville; and two brothers, William "Bill" Kemmer, and george Kemmer both of the Grassy Cove Community.

Pallbearers will be Joe Hill, Bill Mitchell, Bill Cameron, James B. "Pitt" Kemmer, Scott Lansford, James S. (Jim) Kemmer, Tom Hale, Jimmy Kemmer and Reggie Rowell.

Mrs. Scott's family suggests memorial contributions be made to Cookeville First United Methodist Church or to Grassy Cove Methodist Church by contacting the funeral home. Mrs. Scott's family will receive friends Wednesday morning from 9am until time of services at Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home.

Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.