In Memorium: Service Set for Former Rumsonite, Dorothy Cumming Scott

An April homecoming memorial has been set for former Rumson and Little Silver resident Dorothy Cumming Scott, of Irmo, South Carolina, who died on Feb. 10. She was 82.

A funeral service is slated for 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 21 at St. George’s-by-the-River Church.

The obituary, from Thompson Memorial Home … 

Dorothy Cumming Scott
Photo/courtesy of Thompson Memorial Home

Born in New York City Dorothy, known as “Dotsie,” lived in Rumson and Little Silver, New Jersey for 73 years before moving to South Carolina in 2008.

She was a graduate of the Rumson Country Day School, the Garrison Forest School, Garrison, MD, and the Katherine Gibbs School in Boston, MA.  After graduation, Dotsie was employed by Raymond Lowey, an industrial design firm in New York City.  After raising two children, the Point Road School in Little Silver hired her as a teacher’s assistant for 10 years.

Dotsie was a parishioner at St. Georges-by-the-River Episcopal Church in Rumson, NJ for 70 years and served on various committees. She had been a past president of the Little Silver PTO, past vice president and trustee of the Rumson Garden Club, and a board member of the Navesink River Axillary at Riverview Hospital.  She was a member of the Seabright Beach Club, Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club, and Rumson Yacht Club.

Her parents, Dorothy Classen Cumming and Peter Hood Ballantine Cumming, predeceased her.

She is survived by: her beloved husband, Harold William Scott Jr., of 60 years; her son, Harold William Scott III of Palm Springs, CA; her daughter, Laura Scott Auch; grandsons Tucker Scott Auch and Nicholas Joseph Auch of Irmo, SC; two sisters, Diane Cumming of West Palm Beach, FL, and Susan Cumming McAlpin of Red Bank.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Dotsie’s name may be made to St. Georges-by-the-River Church, 7 Lincoln Avenue, Rumson, New Jersey 07760.