Cumberland
Times-News
Sunday, May 24,
1998
FRANCES L. COMP
Deer Park -
Frances Loretta Comp, age 86, of Deer Park,
died Saturday, May 23, 1998,
at Dennett Road Manor Nursing Home, Oakland.
She was born Nov. 12, 1911, in Deer
Park, and was a daughter of the late John Robert Letrobe Thrasher and Grace Marley Thrasher. In addition to her parents, she was preceded
in death by one brother, Lambert L. Thrasher.
She graduated
from Frostburg State
University, formerly Frostburg
State Teachers College,
in its last two-year class, then attended the University
of Maryland and Western
Maryland College.
She retired after a 35-year career having taught at Boiling Spring, Lynndale, Oak Grove, Wilson,
Swanton, Deer Park, and ending her
career at Second Term
School, Swanton.
She was a
charter member of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Deer Park Community Volunteer
Fire Department where she served many years as secretary. She was a past president of the
Allegany-Garrett County Fireman's Association, and held several appointed
offices with the Maryland State Firemen's Association. She also was a charter member of the Loar Auxiliary of Garrett
County Memorial Hospital;
and was a past secretary and worked for many years in the Auxiliary Gift Shop
at Garrett Memorial
Hospital. She was a member of the Deer
Park united Methodist
Church since 1924, making her the
oldest church member. She also served as
Superintendent there for 33 years and taught Sunday School
for many years. She was a member of the Pythian Sisters and a 50-year member of Chapter #67 Order
of the Eastern Star. She also was a life
member of the Garrett County Historical Society.
Surviving are
her husband, whom she married in 1936, George F. Comp Jr.; two brothers,
Harrison M. Thrasher and his wife, Betty, and Carl W. Thrasher and his wife,
Helena, all of Deer Park; one sister, Mrs. Margaret Thrasher Reeder, Annandale, Va.; and on
sister-in-law, Pleasant Thrasher, also of Deer Park.
Friends may call
at the Durst Funeral Home in Oakland
on Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Services will be
conducted at the funeral home on Tuesday at 11
a.m. with the Rev. Neil Parsons officiating.
Interment will
be in the Deer Park cemetery.
Members of the
Deer Park Community Volunteer Fire Department will serve as pallbearers.
The family
suggests that memorials take the form of contributions to the Deer Park
Community Volunteer Fire Department or the Southern Rescue Squad.
Cumberland
Times-News
Tuesday, May 26,
1998
Comp Funeral
DEER PARK
- Services
Frances Loretta
Comp, 86, Deer Park, will be conducted at the Durst Funeral home, Oakland, on
Tuesday at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Neil Parsons officiating.
Interment will be
in the Deer Park cemetery.