Ralph J. Comstock Jr., retired president of First Security Bank of Idaho, died at his Boise home Thursday, Feb. 23, 1995, of cancer. He was 77.
Mr. Comstock was born Oct. 18, 1917, in Rexburg. He went to school in Nampa and Pocatello, and attended the University of Idaho Southern Branch in Pocatello before graduating from the University of Utah in 1939.He also graduated from the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington in 1954.
Mr. Comstock served in the Army for five years, leaving the military as a major after a year and a half of duty in Europe during World War II.
He was vice president and manager of First Security Bank's Pocatello office from 1949 to 1957, then was senior vice president and supervisor of all southeastern Idaho branches until he was named executive vice president in 1962, when he moved to Boise.
Mr. Comstock became president and chief executive officer of the bank in December 1965. He became chair-man in July 1977 and held that position until he retired in January 1984.
He had been a First Security Bank of Idaho director since 1956, and was a director of First Security Corp., the bank's Salt Lake City-based holding company, from 1962 to 1987.
In addition, Mr. Comstock was a director of the J.R. Simplot Co. and several other corporations and held leadership positions in a number of business and educational associations.