Teresa Scott

Teresa Caroline Hammond Cobb Scott, a grateful child of God, departed this world on November 28, 2020. She was born to Teresa Hammond Haltiwanger Cobb and Walter Hill Cobb in Union, South Carolina, on November 22, 1930. She married the late George Homer Scott on June 6, 1955, and is survived by their three children, Elizabeth Scott Shatto (John), Mitchell Hill Scott (Carolyn), and Lora Scott Diaz (Dean). “Grandma Tee” is also survived by seven devoted grandchildren, Julia Shatto Becker (Ian), Scott Shatto, Bradley Scott (Samantha), Emily Scott, Claire Scott, Sarah Diaz and Caroline Diaz. She adored her great-grandchildren Leodin and Aryadne Becker.

As a child, she especially loved time spent at Forest Hill, her aunt’s property in upstate South Carolina. It was a home base for her as was the cabin built by her grandfather in Linville Falls, North Carolina. Many happy summers and a few chilly winters were spent in those mountains where long-time highlanders embraced her extended family with warmth. Otherwise, her mother’s pursuit of employment during the Depression meant a somewhat mobile childhood. At a very young age she spend a year in a western North Carolina boarding school, and another year in the “little girls” section of an orphanage in Banner Elk, N.C., where her mother was matron to the “big girls.” Some of her childhood was spent living with relatives in Melbourne, Florida. During World War II, she and her mother migrated to Washington, D.C. where her mother worked as a librarian in the Justices’ Law Library at the U.S. Supreme Court. There, she had the rare privilege of doing her homework after school in the reading room.

At seventeen she entered Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., a place she loved dearly. She also attended the University of Florida, where she met and married her husband. Later in life she was a proud 4.0 student in the honors program at Frederick Community College.

Early on she was a psychiatric aide at the Institute of Living in New Haven, Connecticut. She worked as a lab technician in several hospitals, and at labs at Fort Detrick after she and her husband moved to Frederick, Maryland in 1957. Briefly, she was a proofreader for the Frederick News Post where she contributed opinion pieces, letters to the editor, and a few feature articles in subsequent decades. As children came along, she raised her family full-time and was a childcare provider.

She was a Sunday school teacher and member of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Frederick, where she belonged to the Order of the Daughters of the King. She also attended Harriet Chapel in Thurmont. Many local church publications were graced by her contributions of art, essays, and poetry.

A small family service is planned and when a large gathering is possible, a party will be held to celebrate her Homecoming. For those moved to make a gift in her memory, the family suggests donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (https://www.stjude.org/).