Memorial services for Christopher Paul Scott, of Henderson, will be 2 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at Shackelford Funeral Directors – Crook Avenue with Dr. Billy Smith officiating.
Also known as “Scotty,” he was born July 23, 1972, in Dyersburg. Later, the family moved to Henderson where he grew up. Later as an adult, he moved to Colorado where he enjoyed hiking and backpacking in the Rocky Mountains. He was a lover of the outdoors. While in Colorado, he got into the food industry and worked as a chef for many years. Cooking was one of his passions. He also loved art and was a very good artist himself, doing paintings and charcoal drawings. He also loved gardening and collected heirloom seeds so he could grow the vegetables he loved to use in cooking.
In 2003, he moved back to Henderson and lived with his mother and stepfather. He worked at Rafferty’s Restaurant and made many lifelong friends there. In 2023, he stopped working to help his mother take care of his stepfather who had Alzheimer’s dementia.
He was loyal and loving to his family and friends, and many of his friends became like family to him. He was also a great animal lover and befriended not only neighborhood cats and dogs but a possum who came around the house. He even named the possum Tater. He was also a pet parent of two cats named Pepper and Piper.
He is survived by his mother, Ellen West; sister, Lisa Scott; stepsister, Jennifer Burress; stepbrother, Bradley West; nephews, Austin Hardy, Landon Hardy, Mason Burress and Samuel Burress; and fur babies, Pepper Scott and Piper Scott.
He was preceded in death by his stepfather, Kenneth West.
