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Ms. Scott, who died Tuesday, November 30, 2010, at her residence, was born April 19, 1940, in Decatur to David Blevins Barrett and Edith Agee Barrett. She was very active in her community, serving as state president, spokette and sparkette with the Jaycettes, member of the Diggerettes Garden Club and a member of First Christian Church of Decatur. Ms. Scott was homecoming queen, head cheerleader and voted school favorite of Decatur High School. She organized and implemented fundraisers for the Mental Health Association and assisted mentally handicapped children in Morgan County. In addition, Ms. Scott organized the local March of Dimes for several years. At the time of her death, she was employed by Martin's Department Store.
She is survived by three sons, Buddy Greenwell and his wife, Jo Ellen, Bryant Greenwell and his wife, Shawna, and Jon Greenwell and his wife, Jennifer, all of Decatur; twin sister, Joan Gunn of Falkville, and sister, Jan Bawsel of Decatur; and six grandchildren, Cody Greenwell, Matthew Greenwell, Eric Greenwell, Justin Greenwell, Brynna Greenwell and Trey Greenwell, all of Decatur, Blake Hensley of Hartselle, and Shawna Hensley of Panama City, Fla.
Carol Hallman Douglas Ann - she was a great friend and I am honored that the boys asked me to deliver the message at her service tomorrow
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Richard Allen
At Gorden-Bibb School in the early 1950's, the Barrett girls, Jean and Joan, were special. Not only were they vivacious, pretty, and smart, they were the only set of twins in our class--which was the whole school as far as we were concerned. The girls were inseperable; you seldom saw one with out the other and , as I recall, they were almost always in those grammar school days, dressed alike. Although they were idendical, after a while we were around them enough that we could tell them apart even though they were not often apart themselves.
For a while, their family lived on Jackson Street, just down from St. John's church, and I would sometimes see them playing on their front porch when I would walk to town (2nd Avenue). Later, they lived for a while in a house on 4th Avenue, across the street, and a little south of where Nancy Reed lived. An alley ran beside the house, then looped behind it, and it was a down hill run from the street to the "backalley." It was the same house Davine Nichols lived in before her family left Decatur, right after our 4th grade year. I lived a block and a half away on 3rd Avenue. When Davine lived there I would ride my bicycle to the house, then down the hill, over and over hoping to impress her. When Jean and Joan moved in, I switched my attention to trying to impress them. I think they might have waved to me from the second story balcony once, but they never invited me up for tea.
The house, like the one I lived in, is gone now replaced by a grassy lot so that you can not even see that a house that once shelterd wonderful, innocent little girls was ever there. But when I come home to Decatur and drive by as I often do, I always think them, and the little boy who just wanted to be noticed. RFA
Doug Nabors
I GREW UP WITH JEAN, WE ROLLER SKATED ACROSS THE STREET FROM HER HOUSE ON JACKSON STREET-SHE WAS A GREAT FRIEND---I REMEMBER HAVING A HUGE CRUSH ON HER---HER FATHER DELIVERED MILK TO OUR HOUSE, YES WE USED TO DO THAT. WE WERE IN THE JAYCEES TOGETHER
DOUG NABORS