Name: EDNA JEAN SCOTT

Date of Birth: 26 February 1916

Birth Location: Warren, Western Australia

Maiden Name: Hutton

Also Known As: Jean

Date of Death: 18 September 2010

Age: 94 years

Death Location: Bassendean Nursing Home, Western Australia

Date of Burial: 24 September 2010

Denomination: Anglican A

Row/Grave: Row 2. Grave # 10

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TOGETHER WITH

EDNA JEAN SCOTT

HIS BELOVED WIFE

AND OUR LOVED MOTHER

BORN 26th FEBRUARY 1916

PASSED AWAY  18th SEPTEMBER 2010

AGED  94 YEARS

ETERNALLY UNITED.

Father: William Walter Hutton. Born 8 January 1877 at Balingup, Western Australia. Died 13 November 1972 at Bunbury, Western Australia

Mother: Bertha Fanny Christina (Payne) Hutton. Born 8 November 1877 at Vasse, Western Australia. Died 12 November 1962 at Perth, Western Australia

Grandparents (father): John James Hutton. Born 31 December 1854 at Busselton, Western Australia. Died 10 August 1936 at Capel, Western Australia and Ann Alice Jackson. Born 8 October 1856 at Bunbury, West Australia. Died 4 January 1906 at Capel, Western Australia

Grandparents (mother): George Robert Payne. Born 29 August 1840 onboard ship ‘Parkfield’ enroute to Australia. Died 31 August 1895 in Bunbury, Western Australia and Elizabeth Hough. Born 8 September 1848 at Australind, Western Australia. Died 23 August 1884 at Happy Valley, Western Australia.

Siblings: George William Frederick Payne, Arnold Payne, Raymond Alfred Payne, Bertha Fanny Payne, Earnest Albert Payne, Laura Marta Payne, Herbert Edward Payne and Lawrence Arthur Payne

Spouse: James Forrest (Jim) Scott.  Married 1938

Children:

Gene William Scott.  Born 5 November 1939. Died 28 December 2022

June Christine Scott.  Born 18 October 1941. Died 17 September 1960.

Pamela Grace (Cordery) Scott. Born 30 July 1943.

Rodney James Scott.  Born 21 July 1947. Died 24 March 2024.

Keith Malcolm Scott.  Born 17 April 1952.

Dale Susan (Robertson) Scott Born 7 March 1959.

Occupation: Home duties

Their Story 

Edna was known as Jean all her life. 

Jean attended Capel Primary School

She married James Scott (Jim) in 1938.

They lived on their dairy farm in Elgin, Western Australia where they started their married life. The farm was known as ‘Kyeema’.  They had a dairy herd of 50 cows and sold the cream to the Boyanup Butter factory, with the residue milk feeding the calves and landrace pigs.

Jean was a great cook with many edible cakes taken to the Elgin Hall Committee dances, held at the Elgin Hall. She and Jim enjoyed these dances very much, often attending dances in Bunbury as well.

Jean enjoyed golf and her lawn bowls for a number of years until she had health problems.

Being very much community minded, she was also a member of the Capel CWA.

After Jim died in 1968 Jean lived at ‘Kyeema’ for a number of years before building a home in Capel for herself and daughter Dale.

Ten years later Jean moved to Perth to be nearer family and bought a house next to her other daughter Pam in Kingsley.

Jeans sister Chris Bicknell lived at a retirement village in Woodvale and encouraged Jean to buy one of the lovely homes near her, which she did, enjoying it very much.

Jean later moved to a nursing home in Bassendean where she lived until her death in 2010. She and Jim share the same grave at the Capel Cemetery.

 Story written by Pam Cordery and Monica Potter for the CDCP website.

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