Grundy County IL Archives Obituaries.....Comerford, Bridget J February 1918
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Plankinton SD Mail, Feb 7, 1918
Mrs. Comerford Dead

Plankinton, South Dakota MAIL, February 7, 1918

It is with a feeling of sadness the old friends here of Mrs. B.J. Comerford 
will learn that she passed away last Friday at the home of her son George in 
Los Angeles, following an illness of several months.  Hardening of the 
arteries was the cause of death, augmented by the infirmities of old age, she 
having passed her 79th year.  Funeral was held from the residence in Los 
Angeles Monday and burial will take the place today at the old home in Morris, 
Illinois.

While the family home of deceased has been in Chamberlain since 1879, she was 
a frequent visitor in Plankinton at the home of her daughter, Mrs. B.H. 
Sullivan and numbers many friends here who appreciated her fine womanly 
qualities, her genial companionship and almable personality.  In the happy 
years gone by before the trials of illness and death entered the Sullivan 
household, the family circle was hardly complete without the presence of 
Grandma Comerford whose heart was ever young and whose spirit heeded not the 
hand of time and the infirmities of advancing years.

Deceased was born in County Wexford, Ireland, Dec. 26, 1838 and came to 
America in 1852, settling at Morris, Ill., where in 1857 she was married to 
Charles Comerford.  Of this union eight children were born three of who are 
living; Mrs. B. H. Sullivan and G.W. Comerford, of Los Angeles and Mrs. Fred 
Dennett, of Washington, D. C.  In 1879 the family moved to Dakota, spent the 
first winter in Sioux Falls and later locating in Chamberlain where deceased 
resided continuously until two years ago when she accompanied her daughter 
Mrs. Sullivan to Los Angeles where she has since resided.

To the surviving relatives, the MAIL joins in tender sympathy.

[Given name of Bridget obtained from her headstone at Mt Carmel Cemetery, 
Morris IL]

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