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Coast Industries Founder Remembered
Local entrepreneur grew
national business
Henry Daniel Scott Jr., a local
entrepreneur w ho grew a business
into a national com pany with 3(X)
em ployees, is being rem em bered
after his death at the age o f 80.
Funeral services were held Nov. 28
at Bethel A M E C hurch in northeast
Portland.
H e w as bom in Vidalia, La. on
April 1, 1925, the second o f nine
children to Henry D. Scott Sr. and
M ary D ickson Scott. A son o f a
L o u is ia n a s h a r e c r o p p e r , h is
hum ble beginnings instilled the will
to get ahead, to strive for success
and to provide for his fam ily.
In 1944, he took advantage o f an
opportunity to relocate to Portland
by w orking in the K aiser shipyards
building N avy ships. He encour
aged his parents, five brothers and
three sisters to relocate to Portland
to build a better future. A fter W orld
W ar II ended and the shipyard
closed, he worked as a m echanic for
C onsolidated Freightw ays.
Scott met B ernice M erriw eather
in 1949 after she m oved to Portland
from Texas. They w ere m arried in
1951. T o this union three children
w ere born.
W hile w orking his day job, he
ing is im p o ssib le ” and "y o u have
to sp en d less th an you e a rn .”
By 1970, the com pany achieved
$ I m illio n in an n u al sales and a c
q u ire d E m p ire S ecurity S erv ices
as its seco n d o p eratio n al d iv i
sion. In 1987, the co m p an y w as
in c o rp o rated as C o ast Industries,
Inc.
U nder his leadership, the ja n ito
rial service w as transform ed into
one o f O reg o n ’s largest minority-
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Ingredients for life. .
Henry D. Scott Jr.
and a friend started a part-tim e ja n i
torial service in o rder to earn extra
incom e. "O ne eight hour jo b was
never enough for m e," he once said.
In 1957, he and his wife officially
launched C oast Janitorial Service.
A s the business grew other fam ily
m em bersjoined the firm, beginning
with his older brother M anuel.
C o a st Ja n ito ria l S erv ice grew
into a su c cessfu l b u sin ess du e to
the active particip atio n o f his fam
ily m em b ers co m b in ed w ith his
b u sin e ss p h ilo so p h ie s o f "n o th -
Accomplished Life
of Varied Careers
Local woman worked for success
C harlene C ox-T anner w as bom can A m ericans at the tim e. She at
in Seattle on June 22, 1928, one o f tended nursing school, graduated,
three children bom to A rthur A. and w orked at Em anuel Hospital,
G ood Samaritan and Portland Provi
C ox Sr. and Etoile Hicks-Cox.
C harlene was quite the business dence.
w om an. T hroughout her life she
W hen her father A rthur A. Cox
interacted with various jo b s and Sr. died, she took full control o f Cox
positions.
In the state o f O regon, in
earl ier years, it was very hard
to get any type o f profes
sional license for A frican
A m ericans. W hen Charlene
follow ed in her m other’s
fo o tsteps by becom ing a
beautician, she left O regon
to attend beauty school in
C alifornia. W hen she re
turned to the state to take an
a p p re n tic e s h ip w ith h er
m other, a licensed beauti
cian already operating un
der a com prom ise license,
special arrangem ent were
m adeforherexam inationon
th e site o f h er m o th e r’s
beauty shop.
She w as once offered a
position in Holly wood as an
actress for the part in w hich Charlene L. Cox-Tanner
D orothy D andrige played, but she & Cox Funeral Chapel in Portland
turned it dow n and let them know along with her son, continuing to
that her first priority was her son. m aintain the fam ily business ju st as
She w as all about fam ily and it has alw ays been.
everyone who knew her w i 11 tel I you
Preceding her in death w as her
that.
m o th er and fath er; sister Ruth
T hroughout her own career as a L ancaster; brother A rthur A. Cox
beautician, C harlene solely oper Jr. and husband W illie Tanner.
ated seven beauty shops. Four o f
S he is su rv iv ed by h er son
them w ere on Union A venue, now Jerom e C ox-T an n er (Schaw na);
M artin L uther King Jr. Boulevard, g ra n d c h ild re n Y o lan d a , K evin
tw o o f them were on W illiam s A v (Angie), Shelleneand Rashad; great
enue and one w as in the basem ent grandchildren N ecia C age, A lexis,
o f her hom e on Rodney A venue.
A spyn and K ylea T anner; a host o f
Later, she had a desire to becom e n ie c e s, n e p h e w s, c o u s in s an d
a nurse, a rare occupation for A fri- friends.
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bia and W illam ette rivers.
He is survived by brothers H.B.
He received m any aw ards and S cott, S am uel S co tt an d T erry
recognition on b eh alf o f C oast In Scott; sisters: Bernice N oble( Jam es
d u strie s. U pon his re tire m e n t, Noble), Ethel Love, Shirley M cCoy;
form er Portland M ayor Bud Clark sister-in-law E lnetta Scott (A lbert
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his p are n ts an d w ife; b ro th ers dren; and many o th er fam ily m em
M anuel an d A lb ert S r.; an d s is bers and friends.
ow ned businesses with o ver 300
em ployees nationally.
In 1990, the O regon Econom ic
D evelopm ent D epartm ent praised
the firm as “a unique model o f black
entrepreneurship in a highly co m
petitive industry.”
In addition to his business en
deavors, Scott was a m em ber o f the
N A ACP, the Urban League and
Bethel A M E Church. His favorite
recreational activity was boating
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