Wilmer Scott

1918 - 1976  (58 years)

• Name	Wilmer Scott
  Birth	15 Jan 1918
  Gender	Male
  Death	9 Mar 1976	Old Chapel Cemetery, Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I27955	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Thomas Alexander Scott
  Mother	Rebecca Wilmer,   b. 22 Jul 1896   d. 24 Feb 1980 (Age 83 years)
  Family ID	F10118	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Grandson of Dr. William Holland Wilmer, son of Thomas Alexander and Rebekah Wilmer Scott. Surname may have originally been "Throppe." Wilmer's step-father was Russell Ellis Sard. Obituary from St. Paul's School Alumni Horae: Wilmer Scott died in St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands, March 10, 1976. He was born in Washington, D. C., January 15, 1918, the son of Thomas Alexander and Rebekah Wilmer Scott. Though he was at St. Paul's for two years only, leaving in 1935, he played first base on the Old Hundred team that spring. After completing his secondary education in Middletown, Delaware, he attended Amherst College for two years. He served for six months in the Army Engineer Corps in World War II, in the United States, receiving a medical discharge at the close of 1942. After the war he worked in New York City for Bache & Co. and later, for many years, was employed on Long Island by a swimming pool firm and a security guard service. He had lived in St. Croix since 1974. A man of warm, outgoing character, he made friends easily and enjoyed their company; read voraciously, especially history and stories of adventure or the sea; and played tennis to the end of his life. He is survived by his mother (now Mrs. Russell E. Sard); a sister, Miriam Scott Utgoff; a daughter by his first marriage, Virginia; a son and daughter by his second marriage, Thomas and Pamela, and one grandchild. Note: Full names of living relatives shortened.