A Requiem Mass for Mrs. Gene Comar will be celebrated on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 10am at St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church. Interment will follow at Calvary Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Monday evening, 6-8pm at GEORGE FUNERAL HOME & CREMATION CENTER, 211 Park Ave. SW Aiken, SC. A Vigil service will take place at approximately 7:45pm. Mrs. Comar, 85, of Aiken, died Saturday, March 9, 2013 at NHC, North Augusta. A daughter of the late Smith Worley and Eugenia Drennan Worley, she was born in Loris, SC, grew up in Windsor, SC, attended Winthrop College and had lived in Mt. Pleasant before moving to Aiken in 1963. She was retired from SC DHEC, but her family was her primary life's work and joy. In her retirement years she enjoyed gardening and quilting. She was a member of the Banksia Quilting Society and the Pieceful Hearts Quilters Guild, winning numerous awards for her heirloom quilts. She was a communicant of St. Mary Help of Christians Church, a long time volunteer at ACTS and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of Knights of Columbus Council #3684. Gene loved to go crabbing with and to cook for her family. Always energetic and fun loving, she was always the first to say "Let's Go". In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by two brothers, Smith Worley, Jr. and Jamie "Bubber" Worley. She is survived by her loving husband of 60 years, Edward P. Comar, Aiken; four daughters, Barbara Brothers Mike Columbia, SC, Mary Harvey Jim Fralix, III Charleston, SC, Carol Dennis David Spartanburg, SC and Amy Turner Todd Aiken, SC and a son, Edward W. "Ned" Comar, Donna Pleasant Hill, CA . She is also survived by twelve grandchildren, Benjamin Comar, Nathaniel Comar, Claire Jarvis, Brooke Jarvis, Grayson Jarvis, Thomas Harvey, Katie Harvey, Jim Harvey, Brandon Dennis, Andrew Dennis, Phillip Hattaway and Kyle Hattaway. She is also survived by six great grandchildren, with one more on the way. In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made to ACTS, 340 Park Ave. SW Aiken, SC 29801 or the St. Mary's Building Fund, PO Box 438, Aiken, SC 29802 Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.georgefuneralhomes.com