She was born in 1914, the daughter of George Ligon and Annie Shirley Anderson of Honea Path, S.C.

She graduated from Honea Path High School in 1932, and received a scholarship to Winthrop College in Rock Hill, S.C., where she was a member of Gamma Sigma Sorority. After graduation in 1936, she taught home economics in the Pacolet, S. C.  schools for two years and later in Lexington, S.C.

In 1943, she married John W. Scott of Roselle Park, N.J., then an Army captain stationed at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C.

Caroline accompanied her husband to his post (Camp Phillips) in Lindsborg, Kan.  While her husband was stationed overseas during the war, she taught in Westminster, S.C.  After the war, they lived in Roselle Park before settling in Waterbury, Vt., in 1947, where they raised their family during her husband’s career at the Vermont State Department of Agriculture in Montpelier.  She briefly resumed her teaching career in Waterbury, teaching courses in household management for young women at the Vermont State Hospital. With her husband’s retirement in 1976, they relocated to Honea Path and later to Greenville, S.C.  After her husband’s death in 2008, Caroline moved to Washington, D.C., to be closer to her daughters.

She was a member of women’s groups at the Waterbury Congregational Church and Honea Path Presbyterian Church, the Dogwood Garden Club in Honea Path, and a founding member of the Obadiah Shirley Association, established to preserve the early 19th century home of her great-grandfather, in Honea Path.

Caroline was a talented seamstress and gardener, and an enthusiastic walker in her leisure time. She had an interest in the arts and took up painting in Vermont, studying under several teachers there and in Greenville.  She enjoyed travels with her husband to national parks in the US and Canada, the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom.  

Caroline is survived by four daughters, Carol Cook of Philadelphia, Pa and Washington, DC,  Jean Scott of Cambridge, Mass., Marion Kasper of Milford, N.H., and Trudy Scott Sharafi of Bethesda, Md.; four grandchildren, Seth Kasper, Margaret Kasper, Laila Sharafi and Kian Sharafi.   She was preceded in death by her husband (2008), and siblings Joe Anderson, Laura Winn, George Anderson, Sue Henderson, and Sallie Foster. 

Funeral services will be held at 1PM Saturday June 23, 2012 at the Honea Path Presbyterian Church with Rev. Deborah Broadwell officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

The family will receive friends immediately following the graveside service. Pruitt Funeral Home, Honea Path, in charge of arrangements.  In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to the Honea Path Presbyterian Church; Obadiah Shirley Association, PO Box 512 Honea Path, SC 2654. Online condolences may be made at www.ParkerWhitePruitt.com