Daily News | George W. Scott, retired TV transmission engineer, veteran, dancer, and masters track and field champion, has died at 101
George W. Scott, 101, of Warminster, retired TV transmitting engineer with Philadelphia’s groundbreaking WPTZ-Channel 3, Air Force veteran, decorated masters division track and field champion, and longtime basketball player and dancer, died Sunday, Aug. 7, of complications from a recent stroke and dementia at Ann’s Choice senior living community.
A skilled amateur basketball player and tireless dancer throughout his life, he began competing seriously in track and field in 2009 when he was 88 and won dozens of medals at the Penn Relays, Keystone Games, Senior Olympics, National Masters Championships, and other events. Born Oct. 16, 1920, Mr. Scott grew up with his maternal grandmother in South Philadelphia and learned to play serious basketball from the Sphas, an early professional team that sometimes practiced at a nearby playground. He played hoops until he was 96, most often at the Doylestown YMCA, and was most proud of his passing skills.
His wife; sons George, Michael, and Thomas; and daughter Patricia died earlier. He met Dorothy Bischoff at a dance, and they married in the early 2000s. She died in 2007. “People were drawn to him,” his son, Jeff, said. He allowed the Penn Memory Center to study his brain over the last few years, and he donated it to the center for further study and his body to the Humanity Gifts Registry at the University of Pennsylvania.“He was a kind, even-tempered man who taught his children to treat everyone the same,” his son said. “He was quick-witted and had a knack for making people feel comfortable.
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