Mildred Comstock grew up in Sodus Point on Lake Ontario and Sodus Bay. She lived with her parents and two older siblings as a young child on one of the three islands in the bay where the children had great fun swimming in the waters and playing on the ice in winter. Their parents were hard at work, father as caretaker, and mother as cook for the carpenters and masons building great summer homes on Newark Island. Father was also busy boating supplies from the mainland and in winter would do so by horse and buggy. He was a noted excellent fisherman and hunter, so he was busy supplying food in that manner as well.
School days and finish of the island work brought the family back to the mainland. Mildred attended the Salt Works School with her siblings, where their favorite teacher was Mr. McMaster. The family lived in several different spots around Sodus Point. These were the days of most everything being done by hand, so Mildred helped her mother with cooking, baking, canning, cleaning, laundry, sewing and darning. Plus she would assist if mother had jobs elsewhere and needed the girls to keep the home fires burning.
Her family lived next in Charlotte where their father was to be working. He had become a cook on the sail and then steamboats that shuttled along the lake ports. She was a war bride later, but that marriage soon ended with them going their separate ways. Much later while working in Florida she married again. She had several challenging jobs in Florida. The first was working for her husband at his garage, keeping the books, and pumping the gas in summer and winter. She was fair skinned with red hair, so became freckled skinned in the Florida sun. She and her husband lived in the countryside that was covered with palmento plants and scrub pine trees and a stream nearby. They kept a small barnyard of animals and had many cats and dogs. The water moccasins were plentiful, but the house pets were alert to their approach and would surround them, whereupon Mildred would shoot them Annie Oakley style with a long gun. Her marriage ended after many years without any children. A job she had later was also challenging, she worked on the large farms that grew flowers for florist shops. The chemicals would bring great welts on the hands of the workers, but she pursued just the same.
The last years of her life she moved back home to her mother's in Sodus Point where she enjoyed quiet hours and the company of relatives. She sadly developed breast cancer and was treated at Roswell in Buffalo, and became an inpatient for a time. She soon after died in the comfort of her home, as treatments were not lifesaving as they are in this century.
Altogether her years had fun where she made it between all the tragedy and hardships. She was a quiet person and a beautiful tall slender lady even late in life. Mildred, despite pain, continued as she had done all her life, greeting visitors with a lovely smile.
School days and finish of the island work brought the family back to the mainland. Mildred attended the Salt Works School with her siblings, where their favorite teacher was Mr. McMaster. The family lived in several different spots around Sodus Point. These were the days of most everything being done by hand, so Mildred helped her mother with cooking, baking, canning, cleaning, laundry, sewing and darning. Plus she would assist if mother had jobs elsewhere and needed the girls to keep the home fires burning.
Her family lived next in Charlotte where their father was to be working. He had become a cook on the sail and then steamboats that shuttled along the lake ports. She was a war bride later, but that marriage soon ended with them going their separate ways. Much later while working in Florida she married again. She had several challenging jobs in Florida. The first was working for her husband at his garage, keeping the books, and pumping the gas in summer and winter. She was fair skinned with red hair, so became freckled skinned in the Florida sun. She and her husband lived in the countryside that was covered with palmento plants and scrub pine trees and a stream nearby. They kept a small barnyard of animals and had many cats and dogs. The water moccasins were plentiful, but the house pets were alert to their approach and would surround them, whereupon Mildred would shoot them Annie Oakley style with a long gun. Her marriage ended after many years without any children. A job she had later was also challenging, she worked on the large farms that grew flowers for florist shops. The chemicals would bring great welts on the hands of the workers, but she pursued just the same.
The last years of her life she moved back home to her mother's in Sodus Point where she enjoyed quiet hours and the company of relatives. She sadly developed breast cancer and was treated at Roswell in Buffalo, and became an inpatient for a time. She soon after died in the comfort of her home, as treatments were not lifesaving as they are in this century.
Altogether her years had fun where she made it between all the tragedy and hardships. She was a quiet person and a beautiful tall slender lady even late in life. Mildred, despite pain, continued as she had done all her life, greeting visitors with a lovely smile.
Mildred Comstock grew up in Sodus Point on Lake Ontario and Sodus Bay. She lived with her parents and two older siblings as a young child on one of the three islands in the bay where the children had great fun swimming in the waters and playing on the ice in winter. Their parents were hard at work, father as caretaker, and mother as cook for the carpenters and masons building great summer homes on Newark Island. Father was also busy boating supplies from the mainland and in winter would do so by horse and buggy. He was a noted excellent fisherman and hunter, so he was busy supplying food in that manner as well.
School days and finish of the island work brought the family back to the mainland. Mildred attended the Salt Works School with her siblings, where their favorite teacher was Mr. McMaster. The family lived in several different spots around Sodus Point. These were the days of most everything being done by hand, so Mildred helped her mother with cooking, baking, canning, cleaning, laundry, sewing and darning. Plus she would assist if mother had jobs elsewhere and needed the girls to keep the home fires burning.
Her family lived next in Charlotte where their father was to be working. He had become a cook on the sail and then steamboats that shuttled along the lake ports. She was a war bride later, but that marriage soon ended with them going their separate ways. Much later while working in Florida she married again. She had several challenging jobs in Florida. The first was working for her husband at his garage, keeping the books, and pumping the gas in summer and winter. She was fair skinned with red hair, so became freckled skinned in the Florida sun. She and her husband lived in the countryside that was covered with palmento plants and scrub pine trees and a stream nearby. They kept a small barnyard of animals and had many cats and dogs. The water moccasins were plentiful, but the house pets were alert to their approach and would surround them, whereupon Mildred would shoot them Annie Oakley style with a long gun. Her marriage ended after many years without any children. A job she had later was also challenging, she worked on the large farms that grew flowers for florist shops. The chemicals would bring great welts on the hands of the workers, but she pursued just the same.
The last years of her life she moved back home to her mother's in Sodus Point where she enjoyed quiet hours and the company of relatives. She sadly developed breast cancer and was treated at Roswell in Buffalo, and became an inpatient for a time. She soon after died in the comfort of her home, as treatments were not lifesaving as they are in this century.
Altogether her years had fun where she made it between all the tragedy and hardships. She was a quiet person and a beautiful tall slender lady even late in life. Mildred, despite pain, continued as she had done all her life, greeting visitors with a lovely smile.
School days and finish of the island work brought the family back to the mainland. Mildred attended the Salt Works School with her siblings, where their favorite teacher was Mr. McMaster. The family lived in several different spots around Sodus Point. These were the days of most everything being done by hand, so Mildred helped her mother with cooking, baking, canning, cleaning, laundry, sewing and darning. Plus she would assist if mother had jobs elsewhere and needed the girls to keep the home fires burning.
Her family lived next in Charlotte where their father was to be working. He had become a cook on the sail and then steamboats that shuttled along the lake ports. She was a war bride later, but that marriage soon ended with them going their separate ways. Much later while working in Florida she married again. She had several challenging jobs in Florida. The first was working for her husband at his garage, keeping the books, and pumping the gas in summer and winter. She was fair skinned with red hair, so became freckled skinned in the Florida sun. She and her husband lived in the countryside that was covered with palmento plants and scrub pine trees and a stream nearby. They kept a small barnyard of animals and had many cats and dogs. The water moccasins were plentiful, but the house pets were alert to their approach and would surround them, whereupon Mildred would shoot them Annie Oakley style with a long gun. Her marriage ended after many years without any children. A job she had later was also challenging, she worked on the large farms that grew flowers for florist shops. The chemicals would bring great welts on the hands of the workers, but she pursued just the same.
The last years of her life she moved back home to her mother's in Sodus Point where she enjoyed quiet hours and the company of relatives. She sadly developed breast cancer and was treated at Roswell in Buffalo, and became an inpatient for a time. She soon after died in the comfort of her home, as treatments were not lifesaving as they are in this century.
Altogether her years had fun where she made it between all the tragedy and hardships. She was a quiet person and a beautiful tall slender lady even late in life. Mildred, despite pain, continued as she had done all her life, greeting visitors with a lovely smile.
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