Roy Valery “Val” Comeaux Jr

Roy Valery “Val” Comeaux, Jr. 
I was born in Florida because my dad was stationed there shortly after Pearl Harbor. I moved to Louisiana when he went to Europe. When I was 3, we moved to Baytown, where I grew up. My official work career started when I was 10; I delivered newspapers for the Houston Chronicle and the Baytown Sun until I left for college.

I worked several jobs while in college, sometimes more than 40 hours a week during the school year. I was president of the Newman Club at the University of Texas. Two days after graduation, I went to work as an accountant in Corpus Christi. I married Anne seven weeks later. In 1970 we moved to Ponce, Puerto Rico. Subsequently we lived in Lake Charles, LA; Pittsburgh, PA; Chicago, IL; Genoa and Fossano, Italy; Pearland and Galveston, TX.  We’ve been fortunatel enough to have been involved (always as donors, sometimes more directly) with major church building campaigns in Austin, Corpus Christi, Lake Charles, Pittsburgh, Houston (St. Frances Cabrini) and now at St. Luke. We have four children, ten grandchildren, and one great grandchild.  All of our grandchildren and great grandchildren live up North; we visit them when we can. 

I’ve been a proclaimer since the end of Vatican II and I have worked with the St. Vincent de Paul Society in previous parishes. At St. Luke, I’m an Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist, I take Holy Communion to a home-bound person, co-chair of the KC Blood Drive,  am chair of the KC Scholarship Committee, chaired the Spaghetti Dinner this year, I bake fish and boil potatoes at the Fish Fry and serve as Lecturer with the Knights of Columbus. I’m also chair of the Supervisory Committee of St. Luke’s Federal Credit Union.

I am blessed.  Anne says “God’s not through with me yet.”.