Scott C. Ashton |
| Posted 2010-01-23 by Sharon |
| The Wickenburg Sun Wednesday, February 3, 1993 ASHTON, Scott Scott C. Ashton, 78, Prairie Village, Kansas, a manufacturing executive and truck equipment pioneer, died Thursday, January 28, 1993, at the home after a long illness. The family lived in Wickenburg from 1960 through 1964 near the Prescott Highway. The home is now Rancho Casitas. The four Ashton children attended Wickenburg schools. A cattle rancher on land adjoining the Rancho de Los Caballeros, Ashton was president of the board of directors of Wickenburg Community Hospital and served as acting hospital administrator in 1963. He was a director of the Desert Caballeros. He was chairman of the board of Brown Cargo Van, Inc., a truck body manufacturing company he established in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1975 after purchasing the van division of the Clark Equipment Co. of Michigan City, Indiana. He was a co-founder, in 1946 and was president of the Ashton-Richards Company, a Kansas City, MO, truck-trailer distribution partnership that became the country's leading trailer sales firm west of the Mississippi River. He was a past president of the Kansas City Central Industrial District Association. He sold the world's first aluminum truck bodies and introduced some uses of fiberglass materials in van body manufacture. He was a developer of the "piggyback" concept of mounting loaded over-the-road trailers on railroad flatcars, initially for the Santa Fe Railway. The Truck Body and Equipment Association named him an Industry Pioneer. He attended the University of Kansas, Class of 1937. He was past president of the Greater Kansas City University of Kansas Alumni Association. As a World War II Army captain, he commanded a cavalry reconnaissance troop in the European Theater. He was awarded the 94th Division's first Bronze Star for Valor and five Battle Stars. He was also decorated with the Croix de Lorraine by the Free French. He was a past president of the Prairie Village School Board. He was a director of the Kaw Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He was a director of the Kansas City Art Institute and was a former member of the Society of Fellows of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. He was a member of Indian Hills Country Club, Prairie Village, and the Garden of the Gods Club in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was a former member of the Downtown Kansas City Rotary Club, the Kansas City Club and Kansas City's Carriage Club, Saddle & Sirloin Club, Rockhill Tennis Club and Wine and Food Society. He was a former member of the Birnam Wood Golf Club in Santa Barbara, CA. Survivors include his wife, Nancy Newlin Ashton, of the home; two sons, Donald B. Ashton, Kansas City, Kansas, and Stewart H. Ashton, Paris, France; two daughters, Sidney Garrett, Lawrence, Kansas, and Judith Ashton, Boston, Mass, and two grandsons. Memorial services were Monday, February 1, 1993, in Kansas City, MO, after a private burial at the Lenexa, Kansas, cemetery. The family suggests contributions to Wickenburg Community Hospital. |
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