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A former 57-year resident of Powell, Edna Scott, celebrated her 108th birthday on Nov. 24 in Worland.
She lives in Worland with a great-niece, Fawnette Greff.
Born in 1915 in …
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A former 57-year resident of Powell, Edna Scott, celebrated her 108th birthday on Nov. 24 in Worland.
She lives in Worland with a great-niece, Fawnette Greff.
Born in 1915 in Melstone, Montana, to John and Iris Harris, she grew up on a farm outside of town. Edna graduated from high school in Melstone and left home to work. She was 28 years old and working at a beauty salon in Bridger, Montana, in 1943 when she met Walt Scott. They were married and moved to Powell where he worked at his family’s plumbing business after service overseas in World War II.
Together they shared a passion for “rockhounding” and roaming the outdoors. Walt died in 1997, and Edna continued to live in Powell until 2000, when she moved to live by herself in an apartment in Laurel, Montana, when she was 85. She walked at least 5 miles a day until she was in her 80s.
Her prescription for living long and healthy: “Just live a good life,” she told the Northern Wyoming News in Worland.
Her great-niece, Fawnette, added to that with the memory of what Edna’s mother used to tell her when going to the dance hall in Melstone: “No smoking, no drinking and no going out in the hall to meet the boys.”
— Dave Bonner
