
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, March 2, 1992                   TAG: 9203020072
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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H.L. SCOTT SR., RETIRED RAILROAD EXECUTIVE, DIES

Hobart Lee Scott Sr., a key figure in Norfolk and Western Railway's merger with the Virginian, Nickel Plate and Wabash railways in the late 1950s and early 1960s, died Friday. He was 85.

Scott, who lived at Friendship Manor, retired from the former NW as director of special services in 1969 after almost 44 years with the railway. He was a committee chairman and an important witness in Interstate Commerce Commission hearings that led to NW's acquisition of the Nickel Plate and Wabash in 1964. Three years later, his studies were presented to the ICC on a proposed, but unsuccessful, NW-Chesapeake & Ohio merger.

His son, Hobart L. Scott Jr., was also an NW executive, retiring in 1987 as senior vice president and chief mechanical officer of the railroad. In 1965, Scott Jr. succeeded his father as transportation manager for the Atlantic and Pocahontas regions.

Scott Sr. and his wife, Willie Housman Scott, observed their 65th wedding anniversary last August.

Also surviving is a brother, William B. Scott of Roanoke.

The funeral will be today at 3 p.m. at Oakey's North Chapel. Entombment will be in Sherwood Chapel Garden Mausoleum. In lieu of flowers, the family asked that memorials be made to Greene Memorial United Methodist Church or a favorite charity.

by CNB