Sammie (Maybelle) Comer, 90, 20 North 4th St., Clear Lake, died Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008 at the Oakwood Care Center, Clear Lake. A memorial service was held Monday, Jan. 28 at Zion Lutheran Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Dean Hess officiating.  Inurnment was held at the Clear Lake Cemetery. Memorials may be given to Zion Lutheran Church.
     Sammie was born May 15, 1917 to Samuel and Anna (Otterness) Wilson in Houston, Minn., then after four years tje family moved to Mabel, Minn.  She graduated from Mabel High School in 1935, then went to Wisconsin Business College in La Crosse, Wis.
     Sammie worked in the office of Advance Bedding Co., La Crosse, Wis., W.G. Woodward Co. in Paynesville, Minn., Montgomery Wards in St. Cloud, Minn. as manager of ladies ready to wear.  She was employed for eight years with a New York chain of dress shops “True Value Shops” in St. Cloud, Minn. and transfered to La Crosse, Wis., Des Moines, Iowa and was manager of the Dubuque, Iowa store.
     On Nov. 9, 1947 she married Robert Comer of Dubuque in Spring Grove, Minn. They had two children, Bobbi and Kent.  They lived there for 20 years, then transferred to  Duluth, Minn., Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Clear Lake.  Sammie worked part-time in different shops.  Her last places of employment were The Peacock Shop and Hanson’s Dept. Store in Clear Lake.
     Left to cherish her memory is her daughter, Bobbi Bruns, Clear Lake; granddaughter, Robyn Davidson and her husband, David, and their children, Samantha and Toby of St. Louis, Mo.; grandson, Paul Robert Bruns and his wife, Jamie, and their children, Paul Christian, Isaac and Luke of Clear Lake; sister-in-law, Elsie Wilson of Loveland, Colo.; also nieces and nephews.
     She was proceeded in death by her husband, Robert; son, Kent; her parents, Sam and Anna Wilson; brothers, Paul Wilson and Ozzie Wilson; sister, Margaret Wilson Raska and brother-in-law, Adolph Raska; nephew, Ricky Raska and niece, Jo Raska Kirchoff.
    Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, was in charge of arrangements.