Jessie Scott, who for many years wrote "The Grapevine" column in the Day Section of the Sunday Oregonian, died Wednesday at a Portland convalescent home. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Mrs. Scott was 78. She lived in Oregon most of her life, and during her career worked on three of Oregon's major daily newspapers – The Oregonian, the Oregon Journal and the News Telegram.
She also spent a number of years free-lance writing, and her short stories and poems were widely published in American and Canadian magazines. She wrote a novel, "Charity Ball," published in 1946 and based on reminiscences of her childhood in LaCrosse, Wis.
She was reared in Cascade Locks, where her father operated the Wind River Lumber Co. mill. Her husband, the late John Denny Scott, was a widely known mountain climber and historian for the Mazama Club. He died in 1977.
Mrs. Scott was a member of the Oregon Free-lance Writers, the Colony of New England Women, the Episcopal Church, the Theta Sigma Phi organization of women in journalism, and one of the founders of the Theta Sigma Phi alumni chapter in Portland. She had been in frail health since suffering a stroke in 1973.
Surviving are one son, Thomas O Scott, Portland; a daughter, Mrs. Donnell Williams, Tigard; four grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Victorian Sivertz, Seattle, and Mrs. Gordon G. Macnabb, Portland; and two brothers, Clark W. Thompson, Washington, D.C., and Rear Admiral (Ret.) Wells Thompson, Seattle.
Mrs. Scott had requested that there be no flowers and that any remembrances be contributions to the Oregon Historical Society.
[The Oregonian, 18 Apr 1890, p19]
Mrs. Scott was 78. She lived in Oregon most of her life, and during her career worked on three of Oregon's major daily newspapers – The Oregonian, the Oregon Journal and the News Telegram.
She also spent a number of years free-lance writing, and her short stories and poems were widely published in American and Canadian magazines. She wrote a novel, "Charity Ball," published in 1946 and based on reminiscences of her childhood in LaCrosse, Wis.
She was reared in Cascade Locks, where her father operated the Wind River Lumber Co. mill. Her husband, the late John Denny Scott, was a widely known mountain climber and historian for the Mazama Club. He died in 1977.
Mrs. Scott was a member of the Oregon Free-lance Writers, the Colony of New England Women, the Episcopal Church, the Theta Sigma Phi organization of women in journalism, and one of the founders of the Theta Sigma Phi alumni chapter in Portland. She had been in frail health since suffering a stroke in 1973.
Surviving are one son, Thomas O Scott, Portland; a daughter, Mrs. Donnell Williams, Tigard; four grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Victorian Sivertz, Seattle, and Mrs. Gordon G. Macnabb, Portland; and two brothers, Clark W. Thompson, Washington, D.C., and Rear Admiral (Ret.) Wells Thompson, Seattle.
Mrs. Scott had requested that there be no flowers and that any remembrances be contributions to the Oregon Historical Society.
[The Oregonian, 18 Apr 1890, p19]
Jessie Scott, who for many years wrote "The Grapevine" column in the Day Section of the Sunday Oregonian, died Wednesday at a Portland convalescent home. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Mrs. Scott was 78. She lived in Oregon most of her life, and during her career worked on three of Oregon's major daily newspapers – The Oregonian, the Oregon Journal and the News Telegram.
She also spent a number of years free-lance writing, and her short stories and poems were widely published in American and Canadian magazines. She wrote a novel, "Charity Ball," published in 1946 and based on reminiscences of her childhood in LaCrosse, Wis.
She was reared in Cascade Locks, where her father operated the Wind River Lumber Co. mill. Her husband, the late John Denny Scott, was a widely known mountain climber and historian for the Mazama Club. He died in 1977.
Mrs. Scott was a member of the Oregon Free-lance Writers, the Colony of New England Women, the Episcopal Church, the Theta Sigma Phi organization of women in journalism, and one of the founders of the Theta Sigma Phi alumni chapter in Portland. She had been in frail health since suffering a stroke in 1973.
Surviving are one son, Thomas O Scott, Portland; a daughter, Mrs. Donnell Williams, Tigard; four grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Victorian Sivertz, Seattle, and Mrs. Gordon G. Macnabb, Portland; and two brothers, Clark W. Thompson, Washington, D.C., and Rear Admiral (Ret.) Wells Thompson, Seattle.
Mrs. Scott had requested that there be no flowers and that any remembrances be contributions to the Oregon Historical Society.
[The Oregonian, 18 Apr 1890, p19]
Mrs. Scott was 78. She lived in Oregon most of her life, and during her career worked on three of Oregon's major daily newspapers – The Oregonian, the Oregon Journal and the News Telegram.
She also spent a number of years free-lance writing, and her short stories and poems were widely published in American and Canadian magazines. She wrote a novel, "Charity Ball," published in 1946 and based on reminiscences of her childhood in LaCrosse, Wis.
She was reared in Cascade Locks, where her father operated the Wind River Lumber Co. mill. Her husband, the late John Denny Scott, was a widely known mountain climber and historian for the Mazama Club. He died in 1977.
Mrs. Scott was a member of the Oregon Free-lance Writers, the Colony of New England Women, the Episcopal Church, the Theta Sigma Phi organization of women in journalism, and one of the founders of the Theta Sigma Phi alumni chapter in Portland. She had been in frail health since suffering a stroke in 1973.
Surviving are one son, Thomas O Scott, Portland; a daughter, Mrs. Donnell Williams, Tigard; four grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Victorian Sivertz, Seattle, and Mrs. Gordon G. Macnabb, Portland; and two brothers, Clark W. Thompson, Washington, D.C., and Rear Admiral (Ret.) Wells Thompson, Seattle.
Mrs. Scott had requested that there be no flowers and that any remembrances be contributions to the Oregon Historical Society.
[The Oregonian, 18 Apr 1890, p19]
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