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Joseph William Herbert

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Death: April 08, 1959 (78)
at a Vernal clinic, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States (heart ailment)
Place of Burial: Vernal, Uintah, UT, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Thomas Franklin Herbert and Ann "Annie" Herbert
Husband of Mary Agnes Cook; Florence Sidney Moon and Bertha Mae Wheeler
Father of Agnes Alberta Herbert; Alfreda Herbert; Thomas Herbert; Vera Herbert; Afton Herbert and 5 others
Brother of Eliza Ann Stephens; Thomas Herbert; Isabelle Southam; Gertrude Pearce; Emma Elena Herbert and 8 others

Occupation: farmer, construction worker
Managed by: Terry Robyn Stait
Last Updated:

About Joseph William Herbert

J. W. Herbert, 78, Funeral Services Held Saturday

Funeral services for Joseph William Herbert, 78, were held Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Glines Ward Chapel with Bishop Woodrow White conducting. Mr. Herbert died Wednesday, April 8 in Vernal.

Prayer at the mortuary was by Harvey McKee and the prelude and postlude music was played by Melba Tullis. Opening song was "Whispering Hope" ssung by a Glines quartet, consisting of Helen McKeachnie, Belle Perry, Lela Baty and Doris Miller, accompanied by Melba Tullis.

Opening prayer was offered by Johnnie Cook and speakers were Harmon S. Sowards and Phil Watkins. Solo, Janet Nelson, "I Walked With God," the quartet, "Old Rugged Cross," and benediction, Garth Batty.

Burial was in the Vernal Memorial Park Cemetery with dedication of the grave by Bishop Lynn N. Murdock. Pallbearers were William Slaugh, He. Merkley, Harold McKee, Niles Haslem, Austin White and Stan Robins.

Mr. Herbert was born May 18, 1880 in Mill Creek, Salt Lake County, a son of Thomas and Ann Wardell Herbert. He married Mary Agnes Cook January 1, 1904 in Vernal. She died February 3, 1927. Their marriage had been solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He married Florence Moon Van Tassell in 1931 at Hayden, Colorado. She died January 6, 1948. He married May Wheeler Rasmussen June 21, 1948 at Heber,

He was employed as a construction worker and farmer throughout most of his life.

Survivors include his widow, two sons and five daughters, Mrs. James (Freda) Redding, Thomas, Mrs. Ben (Vera) Luck, Mrs. William (Belva) Winward, all of Vernal; Mrs. McCoy (Afton) Luck, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Dalley (Bernice) Van Tassell, Salt Lake City; Earl, Portland, Oregon; 25 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. Also two sisters, Mrs. Isabelle Southam, Vernal and Mrs. Josephine Foster, Parks City, Utah.

Out of town visitors included the Johnnie Cooks, Jack Cooks, Wayne Cooks, all of Roosevelt; Earl Herbert, Oregon; the McCoy Lucks, Dally Van Tassels, William Cooks, Darrell Cooks, Charlie Lewis', Frank Lewis', all of Salt Lake City; George Cooks, Price; Clinton Rasmussens, Ellen Lindsey, Duchesne, Sarah Owens, Mrs. Von Roper, Ogden; Doris Rogers, Roy; Mrs. Josephine Foster and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Walker and children of Park City, Utah; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Peterson and daughter of Meeker.

-Vernal Express, April 16, 1959, transcribed by Rhonda Holton


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Joseph William Herbert's Timeline

1880
May 18, 1880
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
1905
April 19, 1905
Naples, Uintah county, Utah, United States of America
1907
August 27, 1907
Vernal, Uintah county, Utah, United States of America
1909
September 19, 1909
Hayden, Uintah county, Utah, United States of America
1911
December 9, 1911
Hayden, Utah, United States of America
1913
December 5, 1913
Vernal, Uintah county, Utah, United States of America
1916
December 17, 1916
Vernal, Uintah county, Utah, United States of America
1921
May 21, 1921
Vernal, Uintah county, Utah, United States of America
1923
December 8, 1923
Vernal, Uintah county, Utah, United States of America