Myra Jean Townsend Scott

Published 12:01 am Friday, July 15, 2016

Feb. 24, 1928 – July 12, 2016

FAYETTE — Services for Myra Jean Townsend Scott, 88, of Fayette, who died Tuesday, July 12, 2016, at Franklin County Memorial Hospital, will be 11 a.m. today at Spencer Funeral Home Chapel in Fayette with the Rev. Aaron Lamb officiating.

Burial will follow at Greendale Cemetery in Roxie under the direction of Spencer Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until service time today at the funeral home.

Mrs. Scott was born Feb. 24, 1928, in Lena, the daughter of Lewis Townsend and Fannie Estella O’Bannon Townsend.

Mrs. Scott was a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a degree in education. She taught math for a number of years before she retired in 1960 from the Jefferson County school system.

Mrs. Scott attended the Fayette Methodist Church. She was married to Virgil Scott Sr. in 1955.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; four sisters; and four brothers.

Survivors include one son, Virgil Scott Jr. of Fayette; one daughter, Martha Kent of Meadville; two granddaughters, Jennie Cupit and husband, Greg, of Natchez and Katrina Owens and husband, Michael, of Jackson; three great-grandchildren, Madlyn Seal of Natchez, Zach Owens and Payton Owens, both of Jackson; two brothers, Wayne Townsend of Lena and Paul Townsend of Wesson; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Don Townsend, David Townsend, Michael Owens, Greg Cupit, Zach Owens, Mathew Scott and Michael Ware.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Fayette Methodist Church of the Greendale Cemetery.