Obituary of Harold Murdock Scott

Harold Murdock Scott Jr., 97, of Brunswick, died on Saturday, February 20, 2016. He was born June 24, 1918, in White Plains, NY. He attended the Hill School in Pottstown, PA and graduated from Princeton University in 1941, with honors in Political Science. He was an avid life-long sailor, growing up sailing at the American Yacht Club in Rye, NY. He sailed at Princeton in dinghies, and in the first intercollegiate race in Navy Yawls. Upon graduation, he entered Navy Officers’ Training, concentrating on antisubmarine warfare in the Atlantic in small craft. He served two years in the Pacific fleet destroyers in World War II, and was awarded the Silver Star Medal as Gunnery Officer through the Okinawa Campaign. He was founder and President of the H.M. Scott Company in Stamford, CT, a laminated plastics fabrication business. While in Connecticut, he was a member of the Noroton Yacht Club and The Corinthians. His love of sailing extended through the winters, frostbiting in dinghies on Long Island Sound well into his 60’s. He summered in Maine for many years, in Bremen, then Dutch Neck, and then settled in Brunswick in 2005 with his wife, the artist, Kathy Curry. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two children from a previous marriage: Harold M. Scott, III of Bellingham, WA, and Olivia Scott Hurd of Berkeley, CA; five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and five step-children, including Shelley Falk Doak of Readfield. He was pre-deceased by his son, Manton Davis Scott, who died in a sailing accident in 1973. Private family services were held on February 24, 2016, at First Parish Church, Brunswick. A celebration of his life will be held at the Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, on July 24, 2016, at 2:00PM. Memorial donations may be made in his honor, to the Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington Street, Bath, ME 04530; or CHANS Hospice Care, 60 Baribeau Drive, Brunswick, ME, 04011; or First Parish Church, 9 Cleaveland Street, Brunswick, ME 04011.