Leo and Susan
Scott
helped me to realize, I could be missing out on the very best one if I didn’t
wake up and smell the coffee.” That’s
when she said, “Yes.”
Taking Life’s Roller Coaster
Ride Together — And Loving It
FEBRUARY 2016
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
Leo and Susan met in the fall of
1973, when Leo’s dad was Susan’s
boss at Six Flags Over Texas.
For their first date, Leo’s dad set
it up so the two of them would both
be at his office around lunch time,
and after talking for a while, Leo
asked Susan if she would like to go to
lunch.
“So we did,” Susan said, “time
and time again.”
Their relationship began at the
peak of the “Women’s Lib era.”
“(That) was still going strong,” Susan
said. “Men were confused as to how
they should treat a woman, but Leo
wasn’t confused. He was quick to
open a door, pull a chair out from the
table for me, whatever. He said he
had no problem respecting women’s
rights, and giving a woman her space
and identity, but good manners never
went out of style with him.”
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Susan admired the way Leo
thought and that he was strong, independent and confident. “I was still a
kid, but knew he was special,” Susan
said. “I felt he would always love me
more than anything else.”
One day, after they’d been dating
for about a year, and had become
close friends, she was listening to
Leo talk, and suddenly asked herself,
“Why am I not latching on to this
guy?”
Leo proposed more than once. “I
had it in my head that I wouldn’t get
married till I was 25 or 26,” Susan
said. “But fortunately my good sense
Simple Wedding
“It was very simple, at my
parent’s house, with the ceremony
performed by a good friend who
had just become a minister,” Susan
said. “We were his first wedding. We
were surrounded by family and close
friends; it truly was beautiful.”
Originally, the couple had
planned a large wedding at Six
Flags, coordinated with the park’s PR
Director.
Then Leo was in a serious car
accident and sustained life-threatening injuries. When it became apparent that he was going to recover, both
Leo and Susan had a new perspective
on life. Leo was still recovering from
the car accident, and his doctors
would not allow us to leave tow n.
“So after the wedding, we went
to a hotel in Ft. Worth,” Susan said.
“We never had a real honeymoon.
But a honeymoon doesn’t make a
marriage.”