SCOTT "SCOTT" REED STARK

OBITUARY FOR SCOTT REED  STARK 

 

SCOTT REED STARK, 63,  died of congestive heart failure on  August 3 , 2025 in Clearwater , Florida .  He   is survived by his loving  wife,  Jeanne  Anne Diener Stark.   They were married 27 years .  He  is preceded in  death  by his brothers Rick Stark, and by Rod Stark and  by his mother  Delores Robinson Stark  and his father Harry   Cecil  Stark  His mother, brother and father are  buried in Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Clearwater, Florida. Scott was cremated and will be eventually interred at Calvary Catholic Cemetary in Clearwater, Florida.  

 

Scott Reed Stark was born in the Norridge   Chicago area and moved to the area in  1980 . He    attended St Petersburg College, then St Petersburg  Junior College and the  University of  South  Florida  in  St   Petersburg,   Florida.  He then  enrolled in Stetson College  of Law in Gulfport, Florida.  He graduated   in 1988 cum laude and went to work for the Pinellas State Attorney’s office after passing the Florida bar in  the fall of 1988.  

He  then met and dated his wife  in early 1989 .  They dated for 8  years before  getting engaged in  late 1996.  They married on  May 16, 1998 and honeymooned in the deep south.  They spent their early years of Holy Matrimony in South   Tampa, Florida.  

He then went to  work  for the school system as a substitute teacher in 1999 and stayed there until 2005. He then went to work for his friend Florida  lawyer   Brent Rose  in  2007 until 2009.  

He then returned to the school system for a season until 2012 until he then started his own legal practice of law virtually until his death in   August 2025.   

A Funeral Mass will be said on August 30, 2025 at 10 am at St Brendan’s Catholic Church in Clearwater Beach.  

In lieu of Flowers , the wife asks that you donate to Stetson College of Law scholarship fund or donate to the American Heart Association or American Diabetes Foundation.