Leon "Oscar" Scott Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Oscar Scott, 76, of Wauchula, passed away on Wednesday, July 7, 2021. He was a longtime resident of Wauchula. He was born in Bartow on November 8, 1944 and moved to Wauchula with his family in the mid-1950s. One of six children born to C.T. and Alma Scott, he was a meat cutter by trade. He worked in the family grocery store in Bartow and when the family moved to Wauchula, he continued to work for his parents in their store at Wauchula Supermarket in Wauchula Hills. He attended Toledo Meat Cutting School along with his longtime friend Robert Smith, after graduation from Hardee High School in 1962. Afterward, he continued to work for his dad as a Meat Cutter until he went to work for Publix. On August 3, 1965, he married Sandy Rickels, daughter of Ralph and Viola Rickels, of Wauchula. Very quickly afterward, he went to work for Publix in St. Petersburg and Largo. He was soon called by his uncle in Haines City to assist him in his grocery store where he managed the meat department there. Within the next years, he and his wife, Sandy, opened their own grocery stores in the Haines City area before returning to Wauchula to own and operate the old Red & White Grocery Store at the corner of Main & Seventh for a few years. Coincidentally this store had been a Publix Grocery in the 1950s. Oscar returned to Publix working in stores in Kissimmee, Lakeland, Haines City, and Bartow. He managed the meat departments in Winter Haven and Sebring where he retired in 2014. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Wauchula and Wauchula Masonic Lodge #17. He later was a member of Haines City Masonic Lodge #219 where he served as Worshipful Master. He was preceded in death by his parents, C.T. and Alma Scott, sisters, Neva Farrer and Bobbie Boatwright, and son, Paul Scott. He leaves behind his wife of 55 years, Sandy, his son, Matthew (Lisa), three grandchildren, Paul Robert Scott, and twins, Jane Eleanor, and Elizabeth Lee Scott of Herndon, Virginia. Survivors also include his brothers, Elton Scott of Lake Placid, Charlie Scott (Donna) of Zolfo Springs, and sister, Mavis Brown (Mac) of Lake Placid. A visitation will be held Friday, July 16, 2021, at Robarts Garden Chapel in Wauchula, Fl. from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Services will be held at First Baptist Church in Wauchula on Saturday, July 17, 2021, at 11 a.m.

Leon "Oscar" Scott

November 8, 1944 - July 7, 2021