Frances Welch

Services will be at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 at Brooks Chapel, Canyon, Texas with Bob Shepard, Elder and Bible Chair Director, University Church of Christ, officiating. Graveside services will be at 10:30 AM on Friday, October 10, 2003 at Ft. Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso, Texas with a U.S. Military Chaplain officiating. Mrs. Welch was born on March 12, 1919 in Spur, Texas. She married Jake Scott in 1933 and together they had two sons. She married Jack Welch in 1962 and they traveled to Kwajalen Island in the Marshall Islands where they spent the next twelve years. She loved the ocean and considered this to be her life's great adventure. She loved gardening, flowers, and traveling the world. She was preceded in death by her former husband, Jake Scott, her husband, Jack Welch, a daughter-in-law, Linda Scott, a granddaughter, Selena Louise Scott Denmark, six brothers, and two sisters. Her friends and family will miss her smile, her laughter, her generosity, and her sense of fun. She made life a little brighter by just being here. Survivors inlcude her friend and companion, Hub Swaringen, of Canyon; two sons, Cleo Scott, and wife, Phyllis, of Pleasanton, TX, and Joe Dale Scott, of California; eleven grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, and two great, great grandchildren.