Phyllis Ann Keeton Comstock passed away on February 2, 2025, at St. Anthony Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Lafayette where she had been a resident since September 2024. She was born on June 26, 1930, in Salina, Kansas, to Fleta (Thomas) and Leroy Earl Keeton. She graduated from Miami High School in Miami, Oklahoma; NE Oklahoma A and M; and Oklahoma State. She taught first and second grade in Oklahoma and Oxnard, California. She earned a master’s degree in children’s psychology from California State University, Northridge.
She married Jerry Matthew Comstock on July 3, 1958, at the Methodist Church in Oxnard. He preceded her in death on December 2, 1990, in Tehachapi, California. They had no children.
She worked with her husband at PJ Enterprises for many years and did volunteer work for the Antelope Valley Indian Museum and for the hospital guild in Tehachapi. She helped create Tomo-Kahni State Park near Tehachapi in 1993, the site of the winter village for the Kawaiisu (Nuwa) Indians. She moved to West Lafayette in 2022 to be near her niece Dorothy Jane Keeton McKowen, who passed away in 2023. She attended Brady Lane Church and was a creative, fun-loving person.
In addition to her parents, husband, and niece, she was preceded in death by her brother John Richard Keeton and his wife Dorothy Olene Spoonhour Keeton. She is survived by her nephew David Thomas Keeton (Barbara) of Syracuse, Kansas; her niece’s husband Paul McKowen of Lafayette, Indiana; her husband Jerry’s niece, Elva Cline of New Ulm, Minnesota; and numerous great nieces, great nephews, and other relatives and friends. Following cremation, her ashes will be scattered over the Pacific Ocean. A celebration of her life will be scheduled at a later time.