Northport, New York
Challenging Perspectives
Perhaps Ron Comer should have been an astronaut instead of an insurance executive. Pursuits that shifted conventional perspective drew him, but if he lacked a view from space, he did get to take Earth's measure from above the clouds and below the waves.
His wife, Cindy, whose first flight was with him at the controls of a Cessna when they were college students, suspected that her solitude-seeking husband flew because "only birds can be up there, not people."
Not many people in the deep, either. On a scuba vacation in Mexico in February, Mr. Comer, 56, who worked at Marsh & McLennan, descended to a watery limestone otherworld the Mayans called a cenote, essentially viewing the planet from within. He told his wife it was "the dive of a lifetime."
Not all his experiments were so satisfying. He had a habit of rearranging shrubs and trees in the garden when he decided that a plant needed to be over here, say, instead of over there. Mrs. Comer had teased, "I can't go to church without coming back and a bush is gone, a tree is gone."
A favorite perspective was from the village dock at home in Northport, on Long Island, even after his daughters, Kate, 26, and Lauren, 23, no longer played in the park there. He would gaze at the birds and the boats, the water and the horizon. Mrs. Comer plans to put a bench there in his memory.
The last time I spoke with Ron he was talking about retirement. We were at his nephews wedding. He is in my daily prayers each day and know he is in a wonderful land fulfilling his dreams.
Carol Van Schaick
September 07, 2021 | Babylon, NY | Acquaintance
Remembering Ron on the 20th anniversary of 9/11...
Cindy Roe
September 04, 2021
Saying a special prayer today for your friends and family. We will never forget.
Del Newberry
March 18, 2021 | Heartland, TX
Jan van Dasler
October 29, 2017
I listen for your name each year as it is read on 9/11 at the site of the the World Trade Center. Bob is enjoying your company.
Carol Van Schaick
September 17, 2016 | Babylon, NY
I just saw your name mentioned on today the 15th anniversary of 9/11. My daughter married a Raymond Andrew Comer. We live in Montgomery County MD. Don't know if there is a family relationship or not but my thoughts and prayers are with you and all your loved ones. May you RIP.
September 11, 2016
Remembered By
Michael D
September 11, 2016 | Northport, NY
You do not know me however I have just been in New York for a few days and my family and I went to the 911 memorial site to pay our respects to everyone on that dreadful day. I took a photo of a flower placed in the memorial there were many flowers but I was drawn to this one in particular, it was cream rose and although slightly fading it still looked beautiful. Sitting quietly in reflection I looked at my pictures and then took in the names around the flower... Right below was the name...
Kerrie Comer
August 27, 2016 | London, England
Is their hope for our love ones that we have lost in death. "The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it" Psalm 31:29
June Jenkins
February 19, 2015
