Lawrence "Larry" Scritchfield Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Lawrence Scritchfield, 69, of Terrell (formerly of Missouri) passed away on September 29, 2019 surrounded by his family and beloved pets. Lawrence was born in Springfield, Missouri to Helen (Andrews) and Albert Scritchfield. He is preceded in death by his parents, his wife Teka Bird, and his sister, Charlotte. Larry grew up in Missouri and attended school there. He enlisted in the Air Force during Vietnam and served as an aircraft mechanic where he learned many skills he would use throughout his life. Larry met the love of his life, Teka Bird, in 1987 and they lived in Granbury until moving to Terrell in 2004. The two spent many wonderful years together building their home and making wonderful memories. When Larry met Teka he immediately felt like a father to her children. He always looked at them as his own and never wanted anyone to be a ‘step’-anything. Through the years he and Teka would have plenty of adventures. They would often load up the animals in the RV and travel to Arkansas to go camping. Larry loved being in outdoors and in nature. This carried over into other hobbies like painting and he would often paint landscapes and natural scenes which he could do all by memory. At one point, his beautiful and realistic artwork was used as advertising by various companies. He and Teka loved planning and landscaping the yard at their home and in 2016, they were awarded "Yard of the Month", a recognition that they were both very proud to have. After Teka’s passing, he continued to nurture their front yard in her memory. and his continued efforts to keep their yard beautiful garnered him a second award of ‘Yard of the Month’ in 2017. Larry also enjoyed going dancing-he loved to dance so much that his family is sure that he danced all the way through the gates of Heaven into Teka’s waiting arms! Larry truly enjoyed to have a good time and folks rarely ever saw him without a smile on his face. Even his Walmart trips for groceries turned into a fun visit and he would go around talk to all his friends which, inevitably because of his fun-loving personality, enabled Larry to always made new friends there. He worked for Roadway Trucking for a number of years delivering freight loads around the DFW area. He was proud of what he did and was presented the Million Mile Award for driving that number of miles completely accident free. Retiring at the age of 62, he was able to dive into his hobbies. He began learning to cook and as his family says “he finally got good at it”! He would spend time with his grandchildren and great grandchildren, regularly teaching them about cars or working in the garden. Larry loved the Lord with all his heart and spent many hours watching the Shepherd's Channel with his bible in his hand. He truly enjoyed reading, researching and learning all he could about the Word of God. A man of many talents, interests and accomplishments, Larry will be greatly missed by his loving family and friends. Larry leaves to cherish his memory his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, niece and nephew as well as cousins, other extended family, neighbors and a host of friends. The family will hold a celebration of Larry’s legacy at a later date.

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Lawrence "Larry" Scritchfield

September 29, 2019