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COMEGYS
DR. C. G. COMEGYS FUNERAL WILL BE HELD AT THE HOME OF MRS. J. L. LOVEJOY SUNDAY 2:30 P.M.
Prominent McKinney Banker Died Suddenly Of Heart Attack At 1 p.m. Friday Jan. 17 – Came to Texas When Boy From Alabama– Finished Education In University of Pennsylvania – Held State-Wide Honors.
McKinney Courier Gazette, January 18, 1930
Funeral services for the late Dr. C. G. Comegys, McKinney banker and outstanding North Texas business man and capitalist, will be held at 2:30 o’clock tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. L. Lovejoy, mother of Mrs. Comegys, and will be conducted by Rev. Benjamin Bean, rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal church of which the deceased was communicant. Dr. R. L. Cowan, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will assist in the funeral services which at the request of loved ones left here, who find themselves terribly shaken by a crushing sorrow and in keeping with the simplicity of taste of the deceased in lifetime, the services will be simple and brief. What the departed was as a man speaks more eloquently than extended words on his funeral occasion can possible convey. Sepulture will follow in beautiful Pecan Grove cemetery this city.
The Isaac Crouch Funeral home will be in charge of the burial arrangements.
Active pallbearers: L. O. Blanton of Dallas; Fitzhugh Newsome, Joe E. Largent, Dr. Ben F. Largent, F. D. Perkins, W. Avery Dowell, O. A. Reese and Walter B. Wilson.
Honorary pallbearers: J. Perry Burrus, Tom M. Scott, J. P. Duncan, John D. Reese, Benjamin Smith, Tom W. Perkins, Dr. Todd Largent, Newton J. Burkett, Charles M. Cooper, Horace Knott, Walter Wiggins, Dick Bass, T. E. Craig, F. A. Pope, Roger Dickerson, Judge G. R. Smith, W. R. Abernathy, Henry C. Barlow, John S. Heard, Gibson Caldwell, J. W. Purcell, Henry W. Warden, A. H. Eubanks, Dr. E. L. Burton, Titus Furr, D. C. Hill, A. T. Church, John Donald, J. D. Bass, Walter D. Howell, Roy Kirkpatrick, G. G. McAlexander, Carl. L. Pool, of Sherman, Jack Burrus of El Paso, Edward Foreman of Chicago, J. W. Gladney, Edgar Turner and Luther Turner, all of Ganesville; Everett Ownes of Dallas; James A. Rountree of Alabama, Wyatt Hendricks of Fort Worth, George Lindsey of Greenville, R. J. Thornton, J. J. Taylor, Dr. John Knott, James P. Griffin, Hugh Bass, Lynn P. Talley, all of Dallas; J. W. Purvis and Frank Purvis, both of Fort Worth; W. R. Brents and M. J. Loftus, both of Sherman; Sam Neathery of Houston, and the following members of the board of directors of Texas Technological college, Lubbock Texas; R. A. Underwood of Plainview, E. O. Thompson of Amarillo, John W. Carpenter of Dallas, Mrs. Frank N. Drane of Corsicana, Clifford B. Johns of Spur, H. T. Kimbro, Lubbock, Houston Harte of San Angelo and F. E. Clarity of Fort Worth.
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His Sudden Passing.
Dr. Cornelius George Comegys was born July 15, 1879 I Courtland, Alabama. His life was snuffed out when barely fifty years old, and in the prime of his busy serviceable career – all too short for a man so richly blessed with family, friends, business success, and with state-wide range of unselfish service. he ever radiated a gentle unassuming dignity that bespoke and exemplified his merit in those things in public service and the business world to which he laid his hands.
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To Texas When a Boy.
He was the son of Capt. Edward F. Comegys and wife, typical representatives of the old South – cultured, well educated and moving spirits in the circle of activities of their day and times. The family came to Texas and settled in Denton when the deceased was a boy, later moving to Gainesville, where Capt. Comegys was superintendent of city schools for more than twenty years or to the time of his sudden death from a heart attack, which also came to him while in the midst of his busy executive school duties at Gainesville more than twenty years. So influential and universally loved was Capt. Comegys that an unprecedented outpouring of sorrowing friends were drawn to the funeral services that was never before or since equalled in the history of Gainesville.
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His Education.
“George” Comegys, as he was wont to be called by his intimate friends, graduated from Gainesville High school with the highest honor of his class. His university education was secured at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and he was also a graduated in dentistry, which profession he successfully followed for ten years. He gave up his practice, together with his other business interests in Gainesville to come to McKinney in 1917 to become the vice-president of the First National bank. To his duties as active vice-president, were soon afterwards added those of cashier of this bank, which is one of the oldest established banking houses of the state. He left his desk at the bank only a few minutes before his sudden death from a heart attack that occurred in less than an hour after his arrival home, 307 North Kentucky street, which malady he had been suffering from to an increasing extent during the past year or longer.
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His Business Career.
Besides being a director, active vice-president and cashier of the First National bank at McKinney, Dr. Comegys was president of the McKinney compress and a director of the Sherman Compress company, both of which institutions he was largely due to the credit of their reconstruction into the most modern inland cotton compresses of the state. He was a stockholder and director of the Texas Electric Railway company, a stockholder and director in the Pool Manufacturing company, a stockholder and official in other concerns and corporations in McKinney and other parts of Texas and in Oklahoma. He was a conscientious, clear-headed, dependable and efficient business man whose counsel and judgement commanded the utmost respect. These qualities caused a demand upon his time and energy beyond his physical ability to accept. He had to decline many proffers of leadership responsibility and honors that were tendered to him. His natural ability, tactfulness, and pronounced success won for him recognition and affectionate esteem of his associates whether in business, fraternal or social circles.
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Fraternal and Civic Activities.
He was a thirty-second degree Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner, a life member of the Elks lodge at Gainesville; was one of the organizers and first president of the Hill Crest Country club, an active worker and a director in the McKinney Chamber of Commerce, a director in the Collin County Fair association, and until the last three or four months, due to impaired health, he was an active Rotarian, treasurer of the club, and a member and treasurer of its student loan fund. As stated above, he was a member of St. Peter’s Episcopal church of this city.
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Regent of Texas Tech.
Gov. W. P. Hobby appointed him as one of the nine members of the Board of Regents of the Texas Technological college at Lubbock, Texas, for a term of six years. His fellow members on that Board made him chairman of its building committee in which capacity his experienced and careful business mind had much to do in building some of the handsome big structures of that comparatively new but prideful institution of our state.
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Another State-Wide Honor.
On February 12, 1924 at a state wide meeting of more than one thousand outstanding Texans, held in the Senate Chamber of the Capitol, Austin, it was unanimously declared that “as citizens representative of all Texans in convention assembled, we are of the opinion that the time is at hand when Texas shall commemorate the achievements of those who gave Texas transcendent glory, and by these presents we decree that there shall be held somewhere within the state a Texas Centennial Exposition, bold enough to please the still hearts of Austin, Travis and Houston, and bid enough to mirror the century of accomplishments of Texas to the sons and daughters of earth, to all of which we pledge our support.” Dr. Comegys of McKinney was named as one of the members of the executive committee of this one hundreth celebration of Texas history due to be held within the next few years.
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His Loss Will Be Felt.
Faithful to every duty that confronted him, thoughtful, considerate of others, a man to tie to in most any stress or emergency. Dr. Comegys’ wide sphere of usefulness and service, will be sadly missed and his vacant place and ability will be difficult to supply. He left in his comparatively brief span of life, a rich heritage of abiding inspiration, not only to his loved ones, friends and business associates, but also as an example to the rising generation of young men and women to model after as meritorious to follow in fidelity to duty, industry and considerate service to the world through business as well as in community and state-wide public service.
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His Survivors.
Dr. Comegys was most happily married October 17, 1905 to Miss Marjorie Lovejoy, daughter of Mrs. Carrie Emerson Lovejoy of this city and the late President John L. Lovejoy of the First National bank. Their home life was a paradise to him, and his sudden passing is almost an unbearable blow at the heart strings of his devoted wife who survives, together with their two fine young sons, John Lovejoy Comegys, a university graduate, and George Wilkins Comegys, a member of the senior class of the State University of Texas to graduate in June this year. He is also survived by one brother, Ed Comegys, a business man of Oklahoma City and by three sisters as follows: Mrs. G. L. Stevens, of Galveston, Mrs. Joel Buchanan, of Ardmore, and Mrs. Lena Lacy, of Ardmore, Oklahoma. Many messages of condolence are being received by Mrs. Comegys and sons from prominent friends of her deceased husband from over this and other states.
JOHN L. COMEGYS SERVICES HELD HERE THURSDAY
Newspaper.
Funeral services for John Lovejoy Comegys, 202 South Waddill Street, who passed away at 1:15 Tuesday in Wysong Hospital, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday morning at the First Presbyterian Church.
Deceased was a member of a prominent pioneer family of McKinney, and had lived most of his life in McKinney, having been born at Gainesville, Texas, August 17, 1906, the son of Dr. C. G. Comegys and Margie Lovejoy Comegys. He was a retired business man of McKinney, and had been in the hospital for several months prior to his passing.
He was a member of the Lions Club, Chamber of Commerce, an elder in the First Presbyterian Church and several civic organizations.
Deceased, a Lt. Commander in the Navy during World War II, attended Washington & Lee University and graduated from the University of Texas, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
Surviving are his wife, Freda: stepson, William Charles Abernathy of Archer City, two grandchildren, one brother, Wilkins Comegys, three nephews, George Comegys of Dallas, Jewel and John Comegys of McKinney.
Active pallbearers will be Jewel Abernathy, A. H. Eubanks, W. B. Finney, Royal Stephenson, Kenneth Eubanks, Roland Boyd, Charles Adleta, Jack Foxworth.
The honorary pallbearers will be the Elders and Deacons of the First Presbyterian Church.
Reverend Sam Riccobene will conduct the services with interment following in Pecan Grove Cemetery, under direction of Turrentine-Jackson Funeral Home.
COMEGYS, SARA
Resolution.
We, the committee, appointed to draft the resolution on the death of Mrs. George Wilkins Comegys (nee Sara Abernathy) who passed away the Fifth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Eight, submit the following report.
With great love and grief the members of the Jeanne d’Arc Club record the death of a dear and respected member, Sara Abernathy Comegys....
Sara was a person of unusual talent and was a valuable addition to any group of which she was a member. Working in all areas of church, civic, educational and social organizations, she gave freely of time and self to elevate them to the high principles of which believed. All of these will feel a greater loss in the losing of such a valuable member....
Respectfully submitted,
Mrs. Tom. W. Perkins, Jr., Mrs. T. E. Riggs, Mrs. W. B. Hope
Prominent McKinney Banker Died Suddenly Of Heart Attack At 1 p.m. Friday Jan. 17 – Came to Texas When Boy From Alabama– Finished Education In University of Pennsylvania – Held State-Wide Honors.
McKinney Courier Gazette, January 18, 1930
Funeral services for the late Dr. C. G. Comegys, McKinney banker and outstanding North Texas business man and capitalist, will be held at 2:30 o’clock tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. L. Lovejoy, mother of Mrs. Comegys, and will be conducted by Rev. Benjamin Bean, rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal church of which the deceased was communicant. Dr. R. L. Cowan, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will assist in the funeral services which at the request of loved ones left here, who find themselves terribly shaken by a crushing sorrow and in keeping with the simplicity of taste of the deceased in lifetime, the services will be simple and brief. What the departed was as a man speaks more eloquently than extended words on his funeral occasion can possible convey. Sepulture will follow in beautiful Pecan Grove cemetery this city.
The Isaac Crouch Funeral home will be in charge of the burial arrangements.
Active pallbearers: L. O. Blanton of Dallas; Fitzhugh Newsome, Joe E. Largent, Dr. Ben F. Largent, F. D. Perkins, W. Avery Dowell, O. A. Reese and Walter B. Wilson.
Honorary pallbearers: J. Perry Burrus, Tom M. Scott, J. P. Duncan, John D. Reese, Benjamin Smith, Tom W. Perkins, Dr. Todd Largent, Newton J. Burkett, Charles M. Cooper, Horace Knott, Walter Wiggins, Dick Bass, T. E. Craig, F. A. Pope, Roger Dickerson, Judge G. R. Smith, W. R. Abernathy, Henry C. Barlow, John S. Heard, Gibson Caldwell, J. W. Purcell, Henry W. Warden, A. H. Eubanks, Dr. E. L. Burton, Titus Furr, D. C. Hill, A. T. Church, John Donald, J. D. Bass, Walter D. Howell, Roy Kirkpatrick, G. G. McAlexander, Carl. L. Pool, of Sherman, Jack Burrus of El Paso, Edward Foreman of Chicago, J. W. Gladney, Edgar Turner and Luther Turner, all of Ganesville; Everett Ownes of Dallas; James A. Rountree of Alabama, Wyatt Hendricks of Fort Worth, George Lindsey of Greenville, R. J. Thornton, J. J. Taylor, Dr. John Knott, James P. Griffin, Hugh Bass, Lynn P. Talley, all of Dallas; J. W. Purvis and Frank Purvis, both of Fort Worth; W. R. Brents and M. J. Loftus, both of Sherman; Sam Neathery of Houston, and the following members of the board of directors of Texas Technological college, Lubbock Texas; R. A. Underwood of Plainview, E. O. Thompson of Amarillo, John W. Carpenter of Dallas, Mrs. Frank N. Drane of Corsicana, Clifford B. Johns of Spur, H. T. Kimbro, Lubbock, Houston Harte of San Angelo and F. E. Clarity of Fort Worth.
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His Sudden Passing.
Dr. Cornelius George Comegys was born July 15, 1879 I Courtland, Alabama. His life was snuffed out when barely fifty years old, and in the prime of his busy serviceable career – all too short for a man so richly blessed with family, friends, business success, and with state-wide range of unselfish service. he ever radiated a gentle unassuming dignity that bespoke and exemplified his merit in those things in public service and the business world to which he laid his hands.
***
To Texas When a Boy.
He was the son of Capt. Edward F. Comegys and wife, typical representatives of the old South – cultured, well educated and moving spirits in the circle of activities of their day and times. The family came to Texas and settled in Denton when the deceased was a boy, later moving to Gainesville, where Capt. Comegys was superintendent of city schools for more than twenty years or to the time of his sudden death from a heart attack, which also came to him while in the midst of his busy executive school duties at Gainesville more than twenty years. So influential and universally loved was Capt. Comegys that an unprecedented outpouring of sorrowing friends were drawn to the funeral services that was never before or since equalled in the history of Gainesville.
***
His Education.
“George” Comegys, as he was wont to be called by his intimate friends, graduated from Gainesville High school with the highest honor of his class. His university education was secured at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and he was also a graduated in dentistry, which profession he successfully followed for ten years. He gave up his practice, together with his other business interests in Gainesville to come to McKinney in 1917 to become the vice-president of the First National bank. To his duties as active vice-president, were soon afterwards added those of cashier of this bank, which is one of the oldest established banking houses of the state. He left his desk at the bank only a few minutes before his sudden death from a heart attack that occurred in less than an hour after his arrival home, 307 North Kentucky street, which malady he had been suffering from to an increasing extent during the past year or longer.
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His Business Career.
Besides being a director, active vice-president and cashier of the First National bank at McKinney, Dr. Comegys was president of the McKinney compress and a director of the Sherman Compress company, both of which institutions he was largely due to the credit of their reconstruction into the most modern inland cotton compresses of the state. He was a stockholder and director of the Texas Electric Railway company, a stockholder and director in the Pool Manufacturing company, a stockholder and official in other concerns and corporations in McKinney and other parts of Texas and in Oklahoma. He was a conscientious, clear-headed, dependable and efficient business man whose counsel and judgement commanded the utmost respect. These qualities caused a demand upon his time and energy beyond his physical ability to accept. He had to decline many proffers of leadership responsibility and honors that were tendered to him. His natural ability, tactfulness, and pronounced success won for him recognition and affectionate esteem of his associates whether in business, fraternal or social circles.
***
Fraternal and Civic Activities.
He was a thirty-second degree Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner, a life member of the Elks lodge at Gainesville; was one of the organizers and first president of the Hill Crest Country club, an active worker and a director in the McKinney Chamber of Commerce, a director in the Collin County Fair association, and until the last three or four months, due to impaired health, he was an active Rotarian, treasurer of the club, and a member and treasurer of its student loan fund. As stated above, he was a member of St. Peter’s Episcopal church of this city.
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Regent of Texas Tech.
Gov. W. P. Hobby appointed him as one of the nine members of the Board of Regents of the Texas Technological college at Lubbock, Texas, for a term of six years. His fellow members on that Board made him chairman of its building committee in which capacity his experienced and careful business mind had much to do in building some of the handsome big structures of that comparatively new but prideful institution of our state.
***
Another State-Wide Honor.
On February 12, 1924 at a state wide meeting of more than one thousand outstanding Texans, held in the Senate Chamber of the Capitol, Austin, it was unanimously declared that “as citizens representative of all Texans in convention assembled, we are of the opinion that the time is at hand when Texas shall commemorate the achievements of those who gave Texas transcendent glory, and by these presents we decree that there shall be held somewhere within the state a Texas Centennial Exposition, bold enough to please the still hearts of Austin, Travis and Houston, and bid enough to mirror the century of accomplishments of Texas to the sons and daughters of earth, to all of which we pledge our support.” Dr. Comegys of McKinney was named as one of the members of the executive committee of this one hundreth celebration of Texas history due to be held within the next few years.
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His Loss Will Be Felt.
Faithful to every duty that confronted him, thoughtful, considerate of others, a man to tie to in most any stress or emergency. Dr. Comegys’ wide sphere of usefulness and service, will be sadly missed and his vacant place and ability will be difficult to supply. He left in his comparatively brief span of life, a rich heritage of abiding inspiration, not only to his loved ones, friends and business associates, but also as an example to the rising generation of young men and women to model after as meritorious to follow in fidelity to duty, industry and considerate service to the world through business as well as in community and state-wide public service.
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His Survivors.
Dr. Comegys was most happily married October 17, 1905 to Miss Marjorie Lovejoy, daughter of Mrs. Carrie Emerson Lovejoy of this city and the late President John L. Lovejoy of the First National bank. Their home life was a paradise to him, and his sudden passing is almost an unbearable blow at the heart strings of his devoted wife who survives, together with their two fine young sons, John Lovejoy Comegys, a university graduate, and George Wilkins Comegys, a member of the senior class of the State University of Texas to graduate in June this year. He is also survived by one brother, Ed Comegys, a business man of Oklahoma City and by three sisters as follows: Mrs. G. L. Stevens, of Galveston, Mrs. Joel Buchanan, of Ardmore, and Mrs. Lena Lacy, of Ardmore, Oklahoma. Many messages of condolence are being received by Mrs. Comegys and sons from prominent friends of her deceased husband from over this and other states.
JOHN L. COMEGYS SERVICES HELD HERE THURSDAY
Newspaper.
Funeral services for John Lovejoy Comegys, 202 South Waddill Street, who passed away at 1:15 Tuesday in Wysong Hospital, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday morning at the First Presbyterian Church.
Deceased was a member of a prominent pioneer family of McKinney, and had lived most of his life in McKinney, having been born at Gainesville, Texas, August 17, 1906, the son of Dr. C. G. Comegys and Margie Lovejoy Comegys. He was a retired business man of McKinney, and had been in the hospital for several months prior to his passing.
He was a member of the Lions Club, Chamber of Commerce, an elder in the First Presbyterian Church and several civic organizations.
Deceased, a Lt. Commander in the Navy during World War II, attended Washington & Lee University and graduated from the University of Texas, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
Surviving are his wife, Freda: stepson, William Charles Abernathy of Archer City, two grandchildren, one brother, Wilkins Comegys, three nephews, George Comegys of Dallas, Jewel and John Comegys of McKinney.
Active pallbearers will be Jewel Abernathy, A. H. Eubanks, W. B. Finney, Royal Stephenson, Kenneth Eubanks, Roland Boyd, Charles Adleta, Jack Foxworth.
The honorary pallbearers will be the Elders and Deacons of the First Presbyterian Church.
Reverend Sam Riccobene will conduct the services with interment following in Pecan Grove Cemetery, under direction of Turrentine-Jackson Funeral Home.
COMEGYS, SARA
Resolution.
We, the committee, appointed to draft the resolution on the death of Mrs. George Wilkins Comegys (nee Sara Abernathy) who passed away the Fifth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Eight, submit the following report.
With great love and grief the members of the Jeanne d’Arc Club record the death of a dear and respected member, Sara Abernathy Comegys....
Sara was a person of unusual talent and was a valuable addition to any group of which she was a member. Working in all areas of church, civic, educational and social organizations, she gave freely of time and self to elevate them to the high principles of which believed. All of these will feel a greater loss in the losing of such a valuable member....
Respectfully submitted,
Mrs. Tom. W. Perkins, Jr., Mrs. T. E. Riggs, Mrs. W. B. Hope