Sue Jane Pinkston Scott
Sue Jane Pinkston entered this world on February 9, 1945 in Denton, Texas. For 73 years, she lived a fabulous life and loved her family and friends fiercely. Sue also cherished her faith and recognized the beauty of the simple phrase “yes, Jesus loves me”. On November 10, 2018, Jesus welcomed Sue to heaven.
Sue’s family and friends will gather on Wednesday, November 14 at 2:30 pm at Restland’s Memorial Chapel to celebrate her life. To honor Sue, the family has requested that anyone who can attend the celebration wear red, her favorite color. Sue loved a good party and her family plans to take this chance to rejoice in style.
After World War II ended, Sue’s parents, Sid Casey and Alta Mae Pinkston, moved to Dallas, eventually settling in Little Forest Hills. Sue grew up making friends, visiting family, and enjoying…. She graduated from Bryan Adams High School in 1963. One of her favorite high school achievements was her time as a Bryan Adams Belle. She attended every Bryan Adams and Belle reunion she could to reconnect with friends.
After graduation, Sue attended North Texas State University (now known as University of North Texas) where she studied to become a teacher. She joined the Gamma Eta Chapter of Alpha Phi. Sorority life gave her life long friends and wonderful memories to share. While at North Texas, she also went on a blind date with a young man from Dallas. After the one date, in her version of the story, she saw the young man in the University bookstore and hid behind some shelves to avoid him. Eventually, more dates with the young man were made and her blind date story became a part of their story – usually with Sue using the phrase “boy, was I blind” to wrap it up.
Sue Jane Pinkston married Randolph Eanes Scott, Jr. at Lakeside Baptist Church in Dallas on June 10, 1967. For the next 51 years, they both taught school, started and raised a family, attended church, led Sunday schools, coached teams, took family vacations, cheered accomplishments, sent two kids to college, welcomed in-laws into the family, loved and cared for their parents, hosted and enjoyed family gatherings, bought cookie cakes for birthday celebrations, and celebrated the births of four grandchildren. Her life was full of joy and laughter.
Sue’s teaching career was one of her most cherished accomplishments. She loved being a teacher. And the students loved her. The vast majority of her teaching career was spent in Garland ISD at Heather Glen Elementary School. Her shenanigans at Heather Glen are legendary. Whether she was working bus duty, tormenting a principal, helping a struggling student, or serving as a mentor for a new teacher, she was going to make sure some fun was involved. During her time at Heather Glen, she had the privilege to teach many brothers and sisters from the same family and even had a few children of former students come through her class later in her career. Making connections with her students and their families brought her a special level of joy. Having Mrs. Scott for a teacher meant working hard but knowing she was going to be your biggest cheerleader when that hard work paid off. Her favorite gift to give any child was a book and she firmly believed that “to learn to read is to light a fire”.
June 10th held a special place in Sue’s heart. She and Randy shared the anniversary date with his parents, Randolph and Jane (married in 1942). Then came June 10, 2002, when Sue became a grandmother for the first time – twice over. Catheryne Grace and Samuel August Brown won the jackpot with Sue as their grandmother. Four years later, after perfecting the art of grandmothering, Sue fell in love with her third grandchild, Randolph Eanes Scott, IV. And then the fantastic foursome was complete in 2008 when Reed Everett Scott joined the fun. Sue loved her grandchildren in a way that only a grandmother can. They were always perfect, never any problem, could do no wrong and were perfect angels. She read to them, played with them, loved on them and prayed for them. She
