A 1950 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, Mr. Scott had served during World War II as an Army Air Corps bomber navigator in Europe. He first practiced with the Chicago firms of Meyers & Matthias and Epton, Mullin & Druth.
In 1972, Mr. Scott started his own south suburban practice. He also was village attorney for Olympia Fields and general counsel of the Illinois Medical Center Commission.
Survivors include a son, Edward A. Scott III of Riffner, Scott & Stefanowicz, Schaumburg.
Thomas Shanahan
Former Wilmette attorney Thomas C. Shanahan, a resident of Evanston, died in April at age 60. He was a 1968 graduate of The John Marshall Law School.
Burton Terry
Former Chicago legal aid attorney Burton S. Terry died April 25 at age 79 of lung cancer in a California care center. A 1951 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, he was an Army Air Corps combat pilot in Europe during World War II.
After brief service as a legal consultant for the Chicago Welfare Department, Mr. Terry became a trial lawyer for the Chicago Legal Aid Bureau of United Charities in 1953, and was appointed director in 1973.
A recipient of the William H. Avery Award in 1985, the year he retired from the Legal Aid Bureau, he had been chair of the Chicago Bar Association Matrimonial Law Committee. He moved to Mill Valley, Calif., about 10 years ago.
Mr. Terry was honored in 1990 and 1995 by the government of the Netherlands for conducting food drop missions in 1945 that saved Dutch people from starvation.
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