Andy Jack Scribner's Obituary
World War II veteran and longtime Brookhaven Country Club golfer Andy Jack Scribner, 96, passed away peacefully February 9 at Baylor Scott & White Hospital in Plano after a brave battle with pneumonia.
Jack, as he was best known, was born August 17,1928 in the community of Stoney Point near Melissa, Texas to James Wilkes Scribner and Jessie (Davis) Scribner and raised in the Baptist faith.
He graduated from Boyd High School in McKinney in 1945 after playing varsity football (including against Highland Park and Doak Walker and Coach Rusty Russell) and basketball. He and five friends then enlisted in the U.S. Navy and began service on December 7. Because Jack entered military service in the last year of WWII, he is considered a WWII veteran.
After boot camp in San Diego and after serving on transport ships for the U.S. Marines from San Francisco to Honolulu, he was assigned to the destroyer tender USS Piedmont. The Piedmont was moored in Yokosuka, Japan supporting occupation forces then Tsingtao, China assisting the U.S. Marine Corps’ occupation of two northeastern China provinces.
Jack was discharged from the U.S. Navy in 1947 and returned to Texas. He was fortunate to have the GI bill to attend college at North Texas State (now UNT) in Denton and was on the varsity basketball team as a freshman and sophomore. While in college, he worked as a gas station attendant, janitor at Men’s Gym (now Ken Bahnsen Gym) on campus, and in the summers as a hay bailer in California.
After graduating with a management degree, Jack was hired as an accountant at National Geophysical Company in 1952. The company eventually became Teledyne Geotech, and he worked there until his retirement in 1990.
Several years after starting his career, Jack met Mary Jane Busby through friends and after dating five years they married in 1958. Jack and Mary Jane lived their entire marriage in Farmers Branch.
One of Jack’s biggest passions was golf. He began playing after college and joined Brookhaven Country Club in 1965. He made many friends at Brookhaven and was fortunate to have made six holes in one during his lifetime including one after he lost his sight in one eye.
As a couple Jack and Mary Jane enjoyed bowling. They participated in numerous leagues and bowled at Valwood Lanes, Don Carter Lanes, Hart Bowl, Cotton Palace and Circle Bowl. They also traveled to numerous bowling tournaments and to some of the country’s best golf courses where Jack would play.
Having been born in the Depression era, Jack appreciated growing up on his family’s farm and learning about hard work at an early age. It led him to be frugal and serious about everything he did in life.
Jack was predeceased by his parents and his siblings and their spouses Leland Scribner (Lois), Blanche Ward (Lonnie), Lura Scribner, Mary Bryant (Raymond), and J.W. Scribner (Darlene). He is also predeceased by his wife Mary Jane Busby Scribner. Several years after her death Jack moved to Highland Springs Senior Living.
Jack is survived by nieces and nephews Judy Scribner Long, Robert Scribner, (Therese), Padgett Bryant, Peggy Scribner, Sharon Hardwick, Karen Stephens (Harold) June Curry (Mike), Donna Rivers (Chris) James David Scribner (Beth) and Carla Rackley (John) along with great-nieces and nephews.
Jack is also survived by Mary Jane’s brother Roy Busby (Jo Ann), nephew Aaron Busby, niece Amy Busby Houdek (Scott) and nephew John Helmer (Vicky) along with great-nieces and nephews.
A visitation and remembrance will take place in the Arbor Room at Highland Springs Senior Living at 8000 Frankford Road on Friday, February 21, from 10 to 11 am, with the Memorial Service at 11 am. The committal service will follow at Restland Cemetery and Memorial Park (Court of Holy Family) at 12:30 pm.
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