Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  Joseph Harvey Comer, Jr.

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The Hominy News Progress
Vol. 35, No. 21
Wednesday, May 22, 2002
Page 5

Joseph Harvey Comer, Jr.

Joseph Harvey Comer, Jr., died Oct. 31, 2001, at the age of 92 in 
Torrance, CA.  Joseph is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Comer.  He was a 46 
year resident of Mento Park, CA., before moving to Rancho Palos Verdes in 
1996.

After graduating from Hominy High School in 1926, Joseph went on to study 
engineering at the University of Oklahoma and continued his study of the 
field until his retirement.  He worked as a Civil/Structural Engineer for 
Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco for 40 years, staying on by request 
ten years after the mandatory retirement age of 65, finally retiring in 
1983.

His engineering career began with Patterson Street in Tulsa in 1931.  A 
depression-era layoff provided the opportunity to co-skipper the "Spirit 
of Depression" for one-month raft trip down the Arkansas and Mississippi 
Rivers from Tulsa to New Orleans.  His engineering career spanned 56 years 
with positions in Mobile, Alabama, Tennessee Valley Authority, Muskogee 
Iron Works in Muskogee.  The Panama Canal Zone in 1939, Knoxville, Pearl 
Harbor in 1942 and finally, Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco.

Joseph married Dorothy Lou Hopper of San Francisco in 1946 and together 
they moved with their two children to Mento Park.  She passed away in 1968.

During his life he enjoyed great music, hunting, woodworking, fishing and 
backpacking with his family in the High Sierras, favoring golf and sailing 
in later years.

He is survived by his son, Edward J. Comer, of Sulsun, CA., his daughter, 
J. Lynn Comer of Rancho Palos Veerdes; four brothers and sisters as wel as 
many nieces and nephews.

Private memorial service was held.
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