Charles Edward Scott began life June 30, 1928, in his grandparents' farm home in Mulberry, Kansas, as the first child of Harold Moses Scott and Eva Hammon Scott. Soon he and his mother returned to their home in Chandler, Oklahoma. His birth was followed by one sister and two brothers before his father died an early death in 1941.

The family stayed for a while with the grandparents, then his mother obtained work in a war industry plant in Kansas City, Missouri, and moved the family. With special parental permission, Charles joined the Naval Reserve when he was 16 and served at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Minneapolis until the end of the war. After the war he returned to Kansas City and attended Business School.

In 1949, he joined an uncle in West Texas and started his career in the newspaper business, beginning at the Odessa American. He soon met Jewell Moreland and they were married in 1950. The newspaper business took them to different parts of Texas, working in Odessa, San Angelo, Pampa, and ending up in El Paso.

In 1958, he started his insurance career as an Allstate Agent in Midland, Texas. After a short period in Dallas, Charles and Jewell moved to Austin, where their son was in the School for the Blind. They purchased a small independent agency. With his ability as a salesman and much hard work and long hours, he built up a very successful agency. With a desire to get out of the city on weekends, Charles and Jewell bought a small cottage in Blanco in 1973. They enjoyed Blanco so much that, when their daughter began college, they sold their agency and moved to Blanco full time.

This gave Charles a chance to do some of the things dear to his heart. He traveled for several years helping to finance new and growing churches all over Texas.

Always interested in politics, he sought the opening as Tax Assessor Collector in Blanco County government and was appointed to the position in 1981. He was elected for a full term, but before the term ended, he was appointed County Judge by the Commissioners. He was re-elected successfully and served as County Judge until 1995. During this period he made many friends and contacts in state, county and local governments. This led to his next career as Consultant in Governmental Affairs. He continued in this work until shortly before his death on November 9, 2004.

Charles became Christian as a small boy in Oklahoma and has served his Lord in his work and through membership in a local Baptist church wherever he lived. He was ordained as a Deacon in 1953 in the Calvary Baptist Church in Monahans, Texas.

He is survived by his wife, Jewell; his son, Fred and his wife Karen; his daughter, Cordelia Willgren; his grandchildren, Christopher and his wife Stephanie, Charles and Caroline Willgren; and a host of loving nephews and nieces. He is also survived by a sister, Lucille Scott Smith of Fort Scott, KS; and her son, James Lee Scott and wife Martha; two brothers, Harold Moses Scott and Melvin Ray Scott of Kansas City, MO.

-- Written by Jewell Scott, November 9, 2004