Allen Scott Lives to Laugh Another Day

There probably aren’t many people who get the unique opportunity to see the reaction to their passing from this life while still among the living, but Allen Scott is certainly among that number! Last week, the story of Brother Scott’s death went through the ward like wildfire. No one knows how the rumor got started nor could anyone verify the story - not from the bishop, the newspaper . . . even local mortuaries had no information. Finally - after numerous calls and e-mails from worried ward members - the bishop called Sunnie Olsen, the Scott’s daughter to inquire as to the health of her father. She responded, her mother . . . and her father were very much alive and enjoying some vacation time on a California beach. When Sunnie called her parents to relay the story, they all enjoyed a good laugh. Now Brother Scott can say, as the American author and humorist Mark Twain is reported to have said after reading his own obituary in a hometown newspaper, “the report of my demise have been greatly exaggerated!”