Eva Louise (Hays) Scotten

Eva Louise Scotten, 65, Harwood, was born Nov. 26, 1943, in El Dorado Springs and she passed from this life at 12:50 a.m. Wednesday Sept. 9, 2009, at her home. She was one of seven children born to the union of Anderson Lester and Amy Ethel (Mann) Hays.

She attended school in El Dorado Spring and graduated with the Class of 1961. Later that year, on Oct. 13, Eva was united in marriage to Robert Larry Scotten in Stockton and to their union two children were born.

After the children had gotten a little bigger, Eva began working at the shoe factory in El Dorado Springs and then she worked for a time at H & R Block, the Bank of Harwood, Tri-County Bank in El Dorado Springs and for the last dozen or so years she had worked at what is now Midwest Fertilizer in Harwood where she was a dedicated employee working until just a few days before her death. She was currently serving as Mayor of Harwood at the time of her death, a position t she had held several times through the years. She had been Harwood’s City Clerk and Treasurer and was a longtime board member of the Green Mound Cemetery. A few years ago, she played a pivotal role in the implementation of the main road being paved in Harwood.
She was very proud and excited over the growing Northeast Vernon County FFA program in which all four of her grandchildren either was or is still involved in now. She loved going to ballgames to watcher her grandchildren and tried to never miss a school program. She enjoyed a good college basketball or softball game. Eva was always very family oriented and was known for her cooking of big Sunday and holiday dinners. If unexpected company would show up, she would insist that they sit down and eat.

She was known by “Grandma” to many more than just her grandchildren – and did you know that she always enjoyed dancing to a good two-step or polka and that, at one time, she even convinced Bobby to take dance lessons.

Eva will be missed by the entire community.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and two sisters, Beverly Gardner and Carolyn Morerod.

Survivors include her husband, Bobby – of the home in Harwood; one son, David Scotten and his wife, Mary – Harwood; one daughter, Linda Scotten – Harwood; two brothers, Gene Hays and his wife, Claudean – El Dorado Springs, and Glen Hays and his wife, Alberta – Walker; two sisters, Ruby McConnaughey – El Dorado Springs, and Judy Spencer and her husband, Steve – Osceola; four grandchildren – Heath Scotten and his wife, Victoria, Darcy Scotten, Quinton Wright and Ryann Ford; one great-grandson, Trayton Scotten; cousins, nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends.

Services were held Friday, Sept. 11, in the Harwood Baptist Church in Harwood with Brother Robert Fox and Brother Grady Davis officiating. Musical selections were Amazing Grace and Go Rest High On That Mountain. Interment was in the Green Mound Cemetery in Harwood.

Pallbearers were – Scott Fletcher, Roger Prough, Neal Gerster, Marvin Rickey, Kenny Hallam and Gerrit Friend. Honorary pallbearers were – Heath Scotten, Quinton Wright, Carson Browning, Don Sanders, Dustin Brown, Orval Moore and Jerry Moore.
Memorials are suggested to the American Lung Association, the Harwood Baptist Church or the Green Mound Cemetery in Harwood.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Lewis-Hoagland Funeral Home in Schell City.