Goldia W. Scott
September 17, 2018
Date of Service: September 22, 2018
Interment Location: Sermon on the Mount Addition
Psalms 118-24
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Goldia Marie Ward Scott, 78, Elizabethton went to be with her Lord Monday, September 17, 2018 at Signature Health Center. A native of Mountain City, she was a daughter of the late Nathan D. Ward, Sr. & Sarah Tester Ward. She was a graduate of Johnson County High School and East Tennessee State College. She had lived in Elizabethton most of her life. She was a retired employee of Sycamore Shoals Hospital as a Medical Lab Technologist. Goldia was an active member of East Side Baptist Church until her illness. She had taught many children through the years about the Bible. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 51 years: Jack K. Scott, by a son Bryan Scott, her brothers & sisters: Robert Ward, Nola Church, Dixie Norris, June Swift, Hill Ward, Nathan Ward, Jr, Hazel Vaught & Sarah Long.
Survivors include her daughters: Holly Scott and Cindy Cable & husband Paul David. One Granddaughter: Savanna Cable, One Great Granddaughter: Nevaeh Marie Cable. One Brother: Conrad J. Ward. Several nieces & nephews.
A Service to celebrate the life of Goldia Scott will be conducted at 7 p.m. Friday in Memorial Funeral Chapel with Dr. Dwight Hobbs officiating. Graveside Service and Interment will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, September 22, 2018 in Happy Valley Memorial Park. Music will be provided by John Brookshire and Pastor Gale Hartley. Eulogy will be given by Mabel Rogers. Active Pallbearers who are requested to assemble at the funeral home at 10:20 a.m. Saturday will be: John Brookshire, Allen Frost, Tony Hardin, Hunter Nelson, Sam Rogers, Mike Gass, Travis Gass, Jerry Boling and Richard “Jarfly” Dugger. Honorary Pallbearers will be: Gary Elliott, Dwight Goad, Claude Duncan, Bill Miller, Steve Cornett, East Side Baptist Church family and the many children whom she taught about the Bible. The family would like to express a special “Thank You” to Sam & Mabel Rogers, Mike & Shea Gass, Alsie Byrd, the Staff of 100 hall, Signature Health and Brooks with Avalon Hospice. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in memory of Goldia to the East Side Baptist Church, 1509 Siam Road, Elizabethton, Tenn. 37643. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday in the funeral home. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 10:20 a.m. Saturday to go to the cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family at our web-site www.memorialfcelizabethton.com.
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