Anna Bicksler Scott was born on October 16, 1917 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. She received a nursing degree from the Presbyterian Hospital of Philadelphia and worked as a nursing director at the hospital.

After marrying Kenneth Scott in July 1942, she visited Korea in 1953 with her first son Ken Jr. and her second son Charles. After visiting Korea, she took care of medical missionary work with her husband at Dongsan Christian Hospital in Daegu.

From 1954 to 1957, she devoted herself to the hospital's patients, and later moved to Severance Hospital with her husband.

Anna devoted herself to work at Severance Hospital's Children's Rehabilitation Center and was appointed as the first director. The rehabilitation center ran physical therapy or rehabilitation programs for children with difficulties in delay due to polio. To this end, inpatient accommodation, physical therapy room, exercise room, school classroom, special entertainment classrooms, restaurants, and playgrounds were prepared and operated in the 155 pyeong(about 5944.4 square feet) building.

In recognition of her contribution, she was selected as the "Mother of the Year" by the Korean government on the 40th Children's Day on May 5, 1962, and was the first foreign woman to receive the award.

She moved to India with his husband, Kenneth Scott, who retired from Korea in July 1963, and worked as a missionary for 11 years, and returned to the U.S. in 1974 to live in North Carolina. She worked as a nurse at a local free clinic and as a volunteer at the American Cross Blood Center. And on August 4, 2010, she suffered from a chronic disease and was called by God.