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AZUBA C. COMFORT
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 14 June 1921]
The death occurred on Saturday, June 4th, 1921, at North Pelham, of Mrs. Azuba C. Comfort, relict of the late W.M. Comfort, M.A., M.D. She had been in failing health for some months, but the end came very suddenly, following cerebral hemorrhage.
The funeral took place from her late residence in North Pelham, on Tuesday, June 7th. Interment was made in the North Pelham cemetery. The services were conducted by the Rev. D.A. Ferguson, pastor of the North Pelham Presbyterian church; and the pall-bearers were Messrs. Elmer Crow, of Ridgeville; F.W. Hutt, of Haileybury; Prof. Warren Crow, of Guelph; R.B. Hutt and H.E. Hutt, of Ingersoll; and E. DeW. Hutt, of Toronto.
The late Mrs. Comfort was born at Dunnville in 1849, and was a daughter of the late James E. Hutt. In her early childhood days she moved to Pelham and received her education at the Fonthill Grammar school. She followed teaching as a profession devoting her activities principally to Pelham and the town of Thorold.
In the year 1877 she was married to Dr. W.M. Comfort, who predeceased her by some twenty years. They lived for some years at Fonthill and Fenwick, and in 1891 moved to the Comfort home in North Pelham; Mrs. Comfort lived here until the time of her death.
At an early age. Mrs. Comfort joined the Presbyterian Church, to which church she gave her unswerving devotion and loyal support till death came. The work of the church was her life interest and she took a prominent and active part in the various branches of its work so long as she was able to attend upon these duties. Though unable to attend during the latter years of her life, her interest never slackened. She was staunch advocate of the cause of temperance, and active worker in the W.C.T.U., and she took a lively interest not only in the affairs of the community in which she lived but of the entire country. Her noble Christian character, her unswerving fidelity to what she believed to be right, her unfailing loyalty to the cause of the church and righteousness throughout the world, made her a respected citizen and a warm, personal friend to a very wide circle, who will feel a personal loss in her death.
Those who are left to mourn her loss are Earl and Edna Comfort, at home; Miss Grace Comfort, Welland; F.W. Hutt, Haileybury; and James H. Hutt, of California; one sister, Henrietta, and one brother, Rev. E.R. Hutt, Ph.D., of Ingersoll, predeceased her.
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