The Delbert K. Scruby Memorial Fountain

Excerpted from First Presbyterian Church of Sun City 1963-1998, Thirty-Five Years of Spiritual Life:

During 1965 gifts of money for the fountain in the patio and the carpet in the Fireside Room were made.  The fountain was a knotty problem for some time as no agreement could be reached concerning the type of fountain or what statuary was to be used.  A Christian flag was also presented, complete with standards for holding the flag, and a cash gift for 100 additional hymnals was made.  Sun City merchants gave $285.00 for this first building fund...

The church was not without tragedy.  In December 1966 it was noted that the Treasurer had been "missing" since November 30, the date he had gone on a rock hunting expedition in the Superstition Mountains.  Session decided they should select a new Treasurer but not place him on the Session until the missing man was proven dead, or at the expiration of his term of office in 1967.  In February, Session agreed they could no longer miss the missing man as "excused."  In December of 1967 Delbert K. Scruby was presumed officially dead and his name removed from the church roll.  A skeleton was eventually found in September 1968 and identified as Mr. Scruby...

In 1968 a three-member committee was chosen to again consider the matter of statuary or ornament for the patio fountain.  The Fountain Committee was dissolved when the Scruby family asked to be allowed the responsibility of obtaining the suitable statuary as a memorial to Mr. Scruby.  Session approved.