PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. – Scott Libbey (Winfield Scott Libbey III) passed away on Jan. 25, after a long illness.

He was born on June 27, 1920, in Lewiston. Son of Winfield Scott Libbey II and Helen McCarthy Libbey, he was raised in the family home on Main Street in Lewiston. He was the oldest of six siblings. Educated in Lewiston schools and Canterbury School in Connecticut, he attended Dartmouth College, but with the advent of World War II, he joined the Army, where he became an artillery expert.

Returning to Maine after the war, he took part in the family business, W.S. Libbey Co., in which he maintained an active interest for as long as the business remained in the family.

In 1946, he married Dorothy Mahoney of Portland, to whom he was introduced by his sister, Elaine. Scott and Dorothy shared a love of adventure, and traveled by car to Mexico on their honeymoon.

While still a newlywed, he attended MIT, where he studied engineering. When it came time to look for employment, he did some research and decided that Los Angeles was the up-and-coming place in the nation. He moved there with his wife and baby, Mary, and made California his lifelong home. At one point, he worked for Howard Hughes, designing a weapons project: a detachable gun pod which could convert regular aircraft to bombers. He bought a house in Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles, where he lived until his death.

Scott lost his wife, Dorothy, in August 2005. He leaves behind his four devoted daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, Patricia and Eileen; two granddaughters, Sarah Conley and Laura Conley; as well as two great-grandchildren, Roman and Sophia Beck.

In addition, he is survived by two sisters, Anne Meldrum, and Elaine Holman, and brother, Paul Libbey.

He was predeceased by his sister, Ruth O’Halloran, and brother, John Libbey.

He has been interred with his beloved wife, Dorothy, at the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Calif.