* Scott W. Duce; Retired Barber

Scott W. Duce, a longtime Lancaster barber and former owner of Scotty’s Barber Shop, has died at his Lancaster home. He was 65.

Duce died Wednesday of heart failure, said his wife, Rhoda Duce.

Born in Hyde Park, Utah, Duce served in World War II in the Army’s 13th Airborne Corps. He went to barber school in Salt Lake City and came to California in the early 1950s. He managed a ranch in Lancaster for a short time before he and Dick Miller opened Scott’s & Dick’s Barber Shop in Lancaster in the late 1950s. Duce bought out Miller in the mid-1960s and changed the name to Scotty’s Barber Shop.

In 1988, he sold the Beech Avenue shop but continued to work there until last August. Duce was a member of the AV Arid Club and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sierra Ward.

He is survived by his wife of 29 years; son Randall Parsons of Palmdale; brothers William Duce of Indio, Calif., and LaVon Duce of Kanab, Utah; sisters Mary Dornboss and Afton Broadstone of Ogden, Utah, Daphne Hancey and Lucille Nelson of Logan, Utah, and Ilene Christiansen of Newton, Utah; and two grandchildren.

Visitation is planned for 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Murphy Mortuary in Lancaster, which is handling the arrangements. A funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday at the mortuary, with burial to follow at Lancaster Cemetery.