Duane Scott Funeral
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1. Welcome: Pastor Gary
2 Corinthians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
2 Corinthians 1:4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
Let us pray.
2. Song: Memory Stick - audio & words on the screen
3. Obituary: Pastor Gary
Duane Owen Scott, age 83, of Yuma, Arizona, passed away surrounded by loved ones on October 3rd, 2021, after a courageous battle with leukemia. Despite the struggle, Duane came out a winner and fulfilled his lifelong desire of meeting his beloved Jesus. Duane was born on August 24, 1938, to Charlie and Vernabelle Scott in Fort Wayne, Indiana. After moving out west to Idaho as a teenager, he worked in logging and then on the railroad. It wasn’t long before he met and fell in love with Rose Marie West (Marie), who became his lifelong partner of 58 years when they were wed in 1959. Together they had 8 children: Shari, Teri, Debbie, Tammy, Duana, Dixie, Duane Jr (Scottie) and Dawna. Duane was a force of nature and spent a majority of his career selling and servicing railroad equipment, traveling the world, determined to provide for his family and give them the life he felt they deserved. This was not just a career for him though, it became a chance for him to make lifelong friends and share his faith in Jesus not just in word, but in deed. It was very important to Duane that those he met “knew Him”, Jesus. While Duane knew how to work hard, he also knew how to play hard and was passionate about doing fun things with his family and friends. On weekends and holidays, you would often find him at the lake boating and skiing, in the mountains snowmobiling, trail riding on dirt bikes, on the beaches of Hawaii, having BBQs with those famous ribs, or camping anywhere he could squeeze in the RV. Anyone who knew Duane knew that he was the most loving father and husband a family could ask for. He was predeceased by his wife Marie, daughter Shari, son-in-law Randy (husband of Dixie), father Charlie and mother Vernabelle. He is survived by his children Teri (Ron), Debbie (Mike), Tammy (Doug), Duana (Randy), Dixie, Duane Jr (Emily) and Dawna (Craig), 29 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, along with his siblings Bill, Harvey and Beth. He was predeceased by his wife Marie, daughter Shari, son-in-law Randy (husband of Dixie), great-grandson Jaxton (grandson of Debbie), father Charlie and mother Vernabelle.
4. Eulogy: Duane “Scottie” Scott
5. Tributes: Family & Friends
6. Song: Memory Stick - audio & words on the screen
7. Sermon: Pastor Gary
It will sound cliché, but to know Duane was to love him. He was warm, friendly, and a great encourager. I don’t think he ever met a stranger. After a short time of my being the pastor here, Duane approached me with a downcast face. He let me know that he had heard terrible news about me. He told me that he had heard that I was an introvert. He said it was like I had an awful disease, and he just could not understand how that could be.
If you knew Duane, you knew his dog, Scootch. Everyone at Foothills loved Duane and Scootch. In fact, this past fall as winter visitors have returned, we’ve received many questions wanting to know where the man with the dog was.
Before leaving for the summer, Duane would always drop off some of his famous ribs at our house for our family to enjoy.
It was only a few weeks in to my becoming pastor at Foothills that Duane’s wife Marie went home to be with the Lord. I did not know Marie or Duane at that time. But Marie’s memorial service spoke volumes about how much Duane loved Marie. Over the past few years, I knew even more how much he loved her and missed her. I find consolation in knowing that he is reunited with her.
Marie’s memorial also showed how well Duane and Marie had raised their family. I have never seen a family draw closer together to one another and the Lord as I have seen in the Scott family.
When arrangements for Duane’s Celebration of Life were being made, Scottie let me know that the theme would be “Do you know Him (Jesus)?” This was Duane’s question for everyone he encountered. He had posed that question to people throughout his lifetime and around the world through his career travels.
With the theme of “Do You Know Him?” I thought I would speak from Philippians 3:10, which reads:
Philippians 3:10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
But as we approached this day, I felt led to speak from an earlier passage from Philippians:
Philippians 1:19-23 New King James Version
Philippians 1:19 For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
The Apostle Paul was suffering in prison and it looked as if it would end in a death sentence.
Paul, like Duane, and each of us can also, took solace in people praying for him and the supply of the Holy Spirit, who Jesus called the Comforter.
He also took hope in God’s Word. “This will turn out for my deliverance [salvation]” is verbatim from Job 13:16 LXX.
It would seem as though Paul was simply longing for release from his affliction.
But Paul and Duane were not only looking for temporary relief from their current suffering – they were looking for salvation (deliverance (v. 19)).
Philippians 1:20 according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
Paul’s joy is bound up with the salvation of his soul, not the outcome of his trial. He is not rejoicing in the possibility of getting out of jail; he is rejoicing in the certainty of his salvation in Christ. [1]
Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
1:20 Paul turns to the OT again in solidarity with the people of God through the ages. Here he draws upon two key terms from Psalm 34:3–5:21
Oh, magnify [megalynate in the LXX] the Lord with me,
and let us exalt his name together!
I sought the Lord, and he answered me
and delivered me from all my fears.
Those who look to him are radiant,
and their faces shall never be ashamed [kataischynthēin the LXX].
Philippians 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Philippians 1:22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell.
Philippians 1:23 For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
In his life and in his death, Duane magnified the Lord.
One time, Duane told me with tears in his eyes about pleading with a friend to give their life to Jesus. It was unimaginable as to why his friend wouldn’t.
“Do you know Him?”
8. Song: Memory Stick - audio & words on the screen
9. Dismissal: Pastor Gary
[1] Meyer, J. C. (2018). Philippians. In I. M. Duguid, J. M. Hamilton Jr., & J. Sklar (Eds.), Ephesians–Philemon: Vol. XI (p. 141). Crossway.
OT Old Testament
21 Gordon Fee also identifies Psalm 34 as an echo of Philippians; cf. his Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, NICNT (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995), 136.
LXX Septuagint
LXX Septuagint