Don Carlon Comstock 1926 - 2000

COMSTOCK, CARLON, SWARTZ, WILLSON, STRAND, SHORT, THROCKMORTON, FRECKER

Posted By: deb (email)
Date: 7/28/2007 at 16:29:25

Don Carlon Comstock, 74, Mt. Pleasant died of pancreatic cancer at 4:15 p.m. Friday Nov. 24, 2000, at his home.
Born May 19, 1926, in Chariton, he was the son of Ruth Shull Carlon. Age 3 he was given to the Iowa Soldiers and Orphan Home in Davenport, later named the Anne Wintermeyer Home. At a young age he was taken as a foster child by Jessie and Lydia Swartz Comstock of the Shiloh area later became the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant. On July 5, 1955, he married Anna L. Willson in rural Mt. Pleasant.
Mr. Comstock farmed for 28 years and retired from General Electric after 22 years.
He moved to rural New London in 1936. He served in the Korean War for two years while stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. He attended the Mt. Pleasant Open Bible Church.
Survivors include his wife, one son Marvin Comstock of Iowa City; two daughters Donna Strand of Blooming Prairie, Minn, and Sara Short of Mt. Pleasant; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and two sisters he located in 1999, Mary J. Throckmorton of Chariton and Beverly Frecker of Tampa, Fla.
Visitation will be from noon to 7 p.m. Monday at Beatty Funeral Home in Mount Pleasant. The family will receive friends from 9:30 a.m. until time of the services Tuesday at the Mount Pleasant Open Bible Church.
The funeral for Mr. Comstock will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Mount Pleasant Open Bible Church, with Pastor Mike Johnson and Randy Bearing officiating. Burial with military rites conducted by New London Veteran of Foreign Wars Post 7641 will be in Sheridan Cemetery west of Mount Pleasant.
The Hawk Eye Sunday - November 26, 2000 page 9B