Edwin Lee Scott, 93, of Clermont, Florida went to be with his Lord and Savior on Friday, July 7th, 2023. He passed away peacefully with family by his side. He was born February 5th, 1930, as the fifth of nine children in a two-bedroom farmhouse in Sumner County Kansas, near Wichita.

Edwin (Ed) was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, a friend, and mentor to many. He was a man of great faith and an active member, elder, and eventually, a full-time worker (pastor) in his church, Hiawassa Bible Chapel. He, along with his God-given helpmeet and beloved wife Phyllis, tirelessly served others (Phyllis proceeded Ed in his homegoing by almost 6-years). Together they offered their time, their home and their love to family, God's extended family, and to anyone in need. A quiet and unassuming man of deep devotion and convictions, Ed lived out the Gospel of Jesus Christ, his Lord and Savior. He truly loved people, including the marginalized amongst us.

While a freshman in high school, Ed's family left the farm for small-town life and steady work in Kiowa, Kansas where he completed high school. He completed two years of junior college in Dodge City and then attended electronics technical school in Omaha, Nebraska. He was drafted into the Army in 1951 shortly after the start of the Korean War. After boot camp, and with 2 years of junior college, he attended Officer Candidates School and finished with an officer's commission and rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He served honorably, including in the Korean Theater with the Army's Signal Corps (electronic communications). His single claim to "war-time fame" was he was personally responsible for establishing secure allied communications for the in-theater Armistice that ceased hostilities in July of 1953 (he was at the Armistice and saw all the "brass" and diplomats). Shortly thereafter, he was honorably discharged from Active Army service but remained in the Army Reserve for 5 years.

Under the Army GI Bill, Ed completed college in 1954 at Kansas State University with an electrical engineering degree. Not long afterwards, in Nassau Bahamas, in March of 1955, Ed married a Bahamian "Island Girl," Phyllis Minns, and thus began their 62-year love affair (a story unto itself).

After marriage and relatively brief stints in Manhattan, Kansas and Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore with Bendix Radio) Ed, Phyllis, and their firstborn son Craig moved to Orlando in 1958. Ed began work with Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) in their guided missile program. He worked at Martin until 1969 when a workforce reduction "nudged" him back into communications with Southern Bell (which became AT&T). He retired from AT&T in 1990 after 21 years and began his full-time work at Hiawassa Bible Chapel.

As a farm boy and "Depression Baby," Ed could fix anything from tractors to teacups… and anything in between. However, he had a love of all things aviation and enjoyed volunteering time at a Kissimmee vintage warbird restoration shop. He often pointed to pictures or videos of various WW II warbirds and could barely hide his pride while saying, "I worked on that airplane." At 90 years old, Ed fulfilled a lifelong dream and personally performed acrobatics in a 2-seat WW II era P-40 fighter plane (think of the plane the famed Flying Tigers flew w/ shark's teeth painted on the nose).

Ed is survived by his children Craig, Grant (wife Renee), Clare (husband Mike) Conner & Eileen Volosin; grandchildren Weston (wife Tabitha) Scott, Kyle (wife Heather) Scott, Clay Conner & Ryan & Robert Volosin; great-granddaughters Penelope, Annabelle, Cassidy and great-grandsons Wyatt and Caine. He is also survived by two sisters and a brother (Marian, Donna, and Gary).

Ed is "absent from the body, but present with the Lord" (and with his dear Phyllis).

The burial will be in Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell. The Funeral Service for Ed will be held Monday, July 17, 2023, 10am, at Becker's Funeral Home, 806 W. Minneola Avenue, Clermont, FL.  The family will receive friends starting at 9:30.  Interment with Military Honors will follow at 12:30 at Florida National Cemetery.

The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, gifts be given to:

Africa Inland Mission P.O.Box 3611 Peachtree City, GA. 30269 Website: https://usgiving.aimint.org/project/1047390-002 Doug and Lisa Ornerhttps://us.aimint.org/give/