This Month's Profile
Sally Comfort
by
Hilda Maston
Sally Comfort. I always think of her as
the hat lady. She might be wearing an orange cowboy hat,
a Mariner’s base ball cap, or a lovely embroidered
pillbox. But she
will
be wearing a hat.
Sally was born and raised in Burlington,
Kansas. She graduated from Topeka High School and went
into nurse's training.
In 1944 she married Bill Comfort and had
to leave nurse's training because they didn’t accept
married students. (How times have changed.) Bill and
Sally had four children -- Bill, Rick, Pamela, and
Melinda -- five grandchildren, and four
great-grandchildren.
When Bill was laid off at Boeing, Sally
went to work at the Department of Social and Health
Services. She worked there for twenty years. Sally
earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Western
Washington State College. She is quite proud of the fact
that she received her degree at the age of fifty.
Sally has worn many “hats” while in the service of the
church, which she joined in 1992. Some of her many
jobs have been: adult education chair, music
committee, choir, Called to Care, chair of the
Deaconate, and personnel committee. She has just
finished a three-year stint as Contact Person on the
Board of Trustees.
Sally’s latest project has been the
selling of her home of 27 years and the purchase of a
smaller place closer to town. The whole thing has gone
so smoothly that she will be in her new home in Viking
Park around the first of August. She credited this
decision to a class she took, taught by Pastor Tom,
about a spiritual discipline called Transformational
Prayer.
With all her church work, Sally also has
time for many hobbies. She enjoys gardening, reading,
piano lessons, and is a devoted fan of the Mariners.
What’s next for Sally? In her own words,
“I have things to do, purposes to fulfill and gifts to
give. The question is, how, when, where, how much, and
how long?”
