COMER, Merle

The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ Jan 20, 1961 Rites Wednesday For Mrs. Comer Funeral services for Mrs Merle Comer were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Wickenburg Chapel with the Rev. Dean McMann, vicar of St. Albans Episcopal Church, officiating. Following cremation, burial will be in the Wickenburg Cemetery. Mrs Comer, who with her husband Vic operated the Frontier Inn, died at 12:30 a. m. Monday in her home of a heart attack. I Mrs Comer was born February 17, 1898, in Jackson, Mich. She later resided in Gladstone, Mich., and in Duluth before going to Minneapolis, Minn., where she and Mr Comer were married in 1924. Mr & Mrs Comer left Minneapolis in 1924 and went to Cleveland, 0., where they opened a wholesale and retail delicatessen which they operated until 1944. After a short stay in Florida and a tour of several states, they came to Wickenburg and bought the El Recreo Cafe from Mr & Mrs Jack Harding in January, 1945. The restaurant was completely rebuilt and Chinese ovens installed for the barbecuing of meats. Since then, the restaurant, the Frontier Inn, has become famous coast to coast. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower once expressed a desire for some of the famed Frontier Inn meats, Secret Service men came to Wickenburg and supervised the packing and shipping of a large amount of the meat prepared by the Comers and delivered it to the president while he was vacationing in Denver. Survivors are the husband, Vic, and one sister, Mrs Zela Barrett of Cleveland, O.