Scalley, Priscilla

Priscilla Scalley was born November 4, 1941 and was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She married her husband, Joseph, on December 26, 1964. The Scalleys arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1972 with their two young daughters. The couple took out two mortgages to buy their house in the Rancho Nevada Estates section of Ward 1. As a young mother, Scalley joined the West Charleston Elementary School Parent Teacher Association and eventually became president. She helped found the Friends of the Libraries when the Clark County Library District had only two libraries—Flamingo Library and West Charleston Library—and served as that group’s president. She was also active in Junior League of Las Vegas and was president from 1983 to 1984.

In 1993, after their daughters had graduated from high school, the Scalleys sold the house and moved to Summerlin, Nevada. After Joe died in 1994, Scalley became reacquainted with and married the father of one of her daughters’ childhood friends, Joel Jobst, who was also widowed. Scalley and Jobst bought a vacation home in Montana, where they spent every summer. They celebrated 13 years of marriage before Jobst passed in 2013.