Pilot, December 26, 1928

BIRDIE SCOTT BURIED SAT.

MISS BIRDIE SCOTT, FORMERLY OF THIS CITY, DIED IN LINCOLN AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS

Miss Birdie Scott, formerly of this city, a graduate of the high school here and a teacher in the Lincoln high school, died last Tuesday following a brief illness, and the funeral was held Saturday at Roberts’ Chapel in Lincoln, with burial in Wyuka Cemetery.

She had the flu and mastoid trouble set in. She underwent an operation for it but it was too late and death resulted. She was taken sick Friday and died Tuesday morning.

Miss Scott was born in Elmira, N.Y., 49 years ago and came to Blair with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Scott, when but a small girl. She attended the Blair schools and was graduated in the class of 1897. The family removed to Lincoln and she attended and graduated from the State University.

She taught in the rural schools near Fairbury and was principal of the high schools in Minden and at Norfolk before she went into the Lincoln schools. She taught at the Saratoga schools for a time and in 1917 became a member of the senior high school faculty, teaching history.

Miss Scott is survived by her aged mother, now past 81 years of age. Her father died some twenty years ago and her only sister, Elzada, died about telve (sp) years ago. She, too, was teaching in the Lincoln schools.

Mrs.? (Miss) Scott was a sister of the late Frank Brooks and of the late Mrs. Mary E. Hazlip, mother of Mrs. Marion Matzinger, now of Metzinger, Neb. Mrs. John Jensen, who lives west of town, is an adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Metzinger.

The obituary in the Lincoln State Journal paid Miss Scott this fine tribute:

“Miss Scott’s devotion to her profession was an outstanding trait. Besides class work, she devoted time to school activities, having coached debating at Lincoln high school for some time. She was sponsor of Forum, a debating society. She stirred many of the hundreds of students she came in contact with to higher ideals of conduct, scholarship and citizenship. Her own standards were high, and her conscientious efforts were untiring in urging her students on, to be satisfied with nothing less than their best.”