my_father.odt

January 30, 2015

My father, Leroy Hall Comfort, was born in the Comfort family home at 1523 East Valley Road, Adrian, Michigan on July 8, 1901 to Charles Mosher Comfort and Elizabeth Edith Barber Comfort. He joined the family of two sisters, Lucy Martha, who died in 1974 and Irene, who died in 1913.

He attended Birdsall School and Adrian High School, graduating in 1920. He completed the two year agricultural short course at Michigan State College, and then became associated in farming with his father.

He organized the Birdsall Boy Scout Troop No. 32 around 1931 and was its Scoutmaster. He developed a cookbook “Patrol Cookery” for use for scouts that go camping with a truck or trailer without use of an oven.

He had allergies and hay fever, making it hard to do some of the farm work. He designed and made an area between the two houses that had 2 pools, bushes, flowers, and a path through it. Big rocks were used around the pools.

He did beadwork, making doilies, a dresser scarf, and a belt. He made an Indian war bonnet (headdress of feathers), and other Indian war equipment.

He liked to go canoeing and spend time at the lakes.

He died of heart attack 8:00 a.m. Thursday, September 11, 1941 at the farm home where he was born.