
A Defeated Creek Community Centenarian departed this life into the arms of the Heavenly Angels at the age of 102 with her family at her bedside on Saturday morning May 11, 2024 at 10:50 a.m. at the home of her son and daughter-in-law who had lovingly seen to her every need in their home for the past ten years.
Mrs. Maude Comstock was pronounced deceased at 11:56 a.m. by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston who had been loving assisting the family with her care in her final days on earth.
Bro. Bryan Bratcher will officiate at the 11 a.m. Wednesday morning funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial will follow beside her husband in Section five at the Ridgewood Cemetery in Carthage.
The Comstock family will receive friends on Tuesday May 14th from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. and on Wednesday May 15th from 7 a.m. until 11 a.m. at Sanderson in Carthage.
She was the last surviving of seven children, five daughters and two sons of the late George Robert “Mr. Bob” Silcox who died February 24, 1988 at the age of 88 and Mary Ellen Scott Silcox who died July 25, 1993 at the age of 91 and was born Maudie Marie Silcox in the Butlers Landing Community of Clay County on June 30, 1921.
Mrs. Comstock was preceded in death by two daughters, Lois Virginia Silcox Kent who died February 1, 2004 at the age of 66, Bessie Marie Comstock Draper who died at the age of 81 on July 14, 2020 and by her son, Bobby Comstock who died as the result of a tractor accident on the family farm at the age of 53 on September 18, 1994.
Her five siblings preceding her in death were William James Silcox who died October 19, 2015 at the age of 74, Stella Silcox Bane who died June 12, 2016 at the age of 74, Elizabeth Virginia Silcox Brown who died October 4, 2020 at the age of 89 and a set of twins, Billy Carmen and Mary Ellen Silcox who died at birth.
Mrs. Comstock was united in marriage to Lock Seven Community native Dewey Birdine Comstock who died at the age of 84 on October 25, 1996 following over 61 years of marriage. They were united in marriage by a Justice of the Peace on Hugh West Hill in the Turkey Creek Community.
Mrs. Comstock was a homemaker who loved the Lord with all of her being and was a member of the Carthage Church of God, but attended the Kempville Chapel Old Time Methodist Church with her family.
She is survived by her only surviving child, a son, Eddie Comstock and wife Linda Bennett Comstock of the Defeated Creek Community; daughter-in-law, Ann Comstock-Deebanks of the Four Way Inn Community; eighteen grandchildren and several great-grandchildren, several great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers: Zach Gibbs, Austin Bridgewater, David Dwight Denton, Bobby Joe & Shawn Comstock, Jed & Clifton Hackett, Andrew Sullivan.