Scott Hawkins

Born Free (Kid Rock)

Opening prayer

Scott Gordon Hawkins, 34, of Missoula Montana passed away on Friday April 5, 2024 at St. Patrick’s Hospital, of a work-related injury.

He was born March 26 th 1990 in Missoula Montana, to Edward S. Hawkins and Rayna E. Hawkins/Stanley. He was the first born out of three siblings. As a kid he loved sports, hunting, fishing, hiking, and all outdoor adventures. He was raised in Frenchtown, and attended Frenchtown School. He participated in Football, Basketball, Wrestling, and Rugby. After High school he joined the Army. He graduated out of Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, he was in the 14 th Military Police brigade, 787 th battalion Delta “dawgs looking for a bone”. He was stationed in Fort Drum, New York. He served overseas in Afghanistan for 13 months. After 5 years of service, he returned home. He followed in the family trade of working with metal, where he joined the “local 14 family of Iron Workers”. He was very passionate and loved his job working with his hands. He excelled quickly and became a Journeyman; he became a Foreman on several jobs. He also made sure to always stay in shape so he could wrestle with his nieces and nephews and out hike everyone on his hunts so nobody could find his honey holes. He was passionate about many things in life including his skills at making log furniture, working out, riding 4 wheelers, camping, hunting, shed hunting, bowling, softball, and spending time with his family around a fire.

He was married and divorced, later finding his soulmate Racquel Harrell. He met her through his mother. After several years together he proposed to her January 1st , 2023. They were to be wed on June 15th , 2024. They found so much love in each other. They shared many passions, including the outdoors.

As a loving son, brother, and uncle, he always made time to spend with everyone doing anything and everything.

He was preceded in death by Papa Edward C. Hawkins, Papa Jerry G. Bland, Grandma Sue L. Ballas, along with many others.

Survivors include his: Grandparents: Grandma Shelia and Papa Larry, and Papa Jack. Parents: Edward and Linda Hawkins, and Rayna and Frank Stanley. Siblings: Jon and Amber Hawkins, LaCee and Blayne Amoth, Justin and Ceara Zuraff, Jordan Zuraff (Holly Martell), Nicole Zuraff (Brock Stewart), Jennifer Stanley, and Jason Stanely. Nieces and Nephews: Addyson and Noah Hawkins, Korey and Klyde Amoth, Lylah Zuraff, Trumaine Wilson, Samantha Jeide and Gwendolyn and Brady Wilson (Great Niece Echo Wilson). Numerous Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins. Fiancé: Racquel Harrell. His fur babies: Trigger and Harvey.

He is also survived by 4 unnamed individuals who’s lives were saved by Scott because he decided years ago to be an organ donor. Even though Scott was not able to have children we do know that one of organ recipients was an 11 yr old boy who received one of Scott’s kidneys.

read Moment of Honor

The Man in the Arena

IT IS NOT THE CRITIC WHO COUNTS; NOT THE MAN WHO POINTS OUT HOW THE STRONG MAN STUMBLES, OR WHERE THE DOER OF DEEDS COULD HAVE DONE THEM BETTER. THE CREDIT BELONGS TO THE MAN WHO IS ACTUALLY IN THE ARENA, WHOSE FACE IS MARRED BY DUST AND SWEAT AND BLOOD; WHO STRIVES VALIANTLY; WHO ERRS, WHO COMES SHORT AGAIN AND AGAIN, BECAUSE THERE IS NO EFFORT WITHOUT ERROR AND SHORTCOMING; BUT WHO DOES ACTUALLY STRIVE TO DO THE DEEDS; WHO KNOWS GREAT ENTHUSIASMS, THE GREAT DEVOTIONS; WHO SPENDS HIMSELF IN A WORTHY CAUSE; WHO AT THE BEST KNOWS IN THE END THE TRIUMPH OF HIGH ACHIEVEMENT, AND WHO AT THE WORST, IF HE FAILS, AT LEAST FAILS WHILE DARING GREATLY, SO THAT HIS PLACE SHALL NEVER BE WITH THOSE COLD ANDTIMID SOULS WHO NEITHER KNOW VICTORY NOR DEFEAT.

Theodore Rosevelt

Personal Comments:

It was a pleasure getting to sit down with Rayna, Racquel, and Frank the other day and just getting to hear more about this amazing person, Scott Hawkins aka Scott Squatch! I needed to learn as much as I could because I feel like I got jipped by never being able to meet and get to know him.

Scott was happy, even when he was mad. Scott had a speech impediment when he was growing up and got teased because of it so when he grew out of it he made sure that no one would ever tease him or anyone else about anything as long as he was around. As he grew he loved to work out! I remember seeing him on Friday before I prayed for him and thinking, “this guy looks like a cage fighter”. I had been told that he was very healthy, a beast is what several people had told me. They did not mislead me.

Scott was always very accepting of everyone and everything. Scott was a protector.

As I stated earlier, he loved the out doors. He loved working out. He loved bowling, softball, you name it, he loved it. Just about anything he picked up, whether sport or hobby, he was a natural at it and became accomplished in it.

Scott loved to sing, whether it was Karaoke or at the bowling alley, it didn’t matter.

He loved Racquel! She is the only person he would hike with that he would ever stop for and wait to catch up.

Scott gave Racquel the love she always dreamed of receiving. And Racquel gave Scott the love he always wanted and had only dreamed of. They were soul mates.

Scott Gordon Hawkins was named after his grandfather, Jerry Gordon Bland. Isn’t it just like God to allow Scott to be burried in the plot right next to his grandfather!

I’d say Scott’s probably content with that.

Rayna’s Reading

Gift of Contentment

Daughter Lacee

INTO THE WOODS with BIG FOOT

Keep Calm, stay wild

and squatch on.

Get lost in the woods

and have some fun!

Enjoy your journey,

one step at a time.

Believe in yourself,

everything will be fine.

Slide Show

Song: Save the Roses

Message

One of the things that impressed me the most about Scott was hearing what he did in his last two weeks on this earth.

Seeing that Scott accepted everyone, it really hurt that there was such division in his family. Two weeks before Easter Scott organized a time of reconciliation amongst his entire family, bringing everyone back to gether again, and not just under one roof, but being able to forgive and really love each other again.

On Easter afternoon Scott ends up having a lengthy conversation with Frank about eternity. Scott had received Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior as a boy but as a man had realized that this life is not all there is. “this is just a pitstop on the way to heaven” he said. “Everything happens for a reason”. Those are HIS words. THree days later Scott fell through the roof, landing on his head; a blow that would take his life. BUT….

Everything happens for a reason.

Ecclesiastes 3:1–15 ESV

1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. 9 What gain has the worker from his toil? 10 I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 12 I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; 13 also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man. 14 I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. 15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.

Here’s the thing, like the song said, Scott has the advantage over us. Joking 'round with Jesus, catching up with grandpa Hurry up preacher.

In 1 Corinthians 13, the author is busy telling his readers about Love. That they can go through their lives and do anything they want, but if they don’t have love, it means nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:4–8 (ESV)

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends.

He goes on to say this about eternity.

1 Corinthians 13:9–13 ESV

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Scott knows fully now! He doesn’t see in a mirror dimly like we do now, only understanding partially what life is about, what eternity is about, who God is and that he really is real! He really is THE WAY, THE TRUTH, and THE LIFE, no one come unto the Father except through Jesus Christ. He knows that FULLY…NOW!

Why am I driving that home? Because it always makes me wonder, what Scott would want to say to us know.

Knowing fully what Life is about, I believe he would want you to know His Jesus and come to salvation in Him.

1 Peter 1:3–9 ESV

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

The hope that Scott would want you to live in each day is knowing you’ll see him again, as you place your faith in Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 ESV

13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Let’s Pray!

Open Mic Time

Only Here for a Little While

Grave Side

Isaiah 57:1–2 ESV

1 The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity; 2 he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.

As we lay Scott’s body in the ground we can rest in the truth of:

Psalm 34:17–18 ESV

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Heavenly Father, we lay Scott’s earthly body in the ground today, but we know that he’s not there, he’s with you in heaven. Help us Lord to look to you for comfort and peace, but most of all, for the hope of salvation! Thank you for continuing to walk with us as we grieve. Thank you that your loving kindness is everlasting! your mercies are new every morning. We pray these things in the powerful name of Jesus. Amen!