An Episcopal priest, Herb died May 10, 2010, in Charleston, S.C., where he and his wife, Louise, had lived since last year at the Bishop Gadsden Retirement Community. He was 87.

Herb was born in Greenwich, Conn., and graduated from Exeter Academy. During World War II he served in the southwest Pacific as a submarine quartermaster aboard the U.S.S. Raton, part of the 7th Fleet. From 1947 to 1950 he was national advertising manager of the Huntington (W. Va.) Publishing Co., and then entered Episcopal Theological Seminary in Cambridge, Mass., from which he graduated in 1953.  

His first parish was at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Williamson, W. Va., where he met and married Louise McCoy. In 1956 he was called to St. John’s Church in Huntington, and then to Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston. He later worked for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, and in 1973 he went to St. Paul’s in Nantucket. Herb and Louise retired in 1985 to Falmouth, Mass. In 1999, they moved to Summerville, S.C., and in 2009 to Charleston.  

Besides his wife, he is survived by daughters Helen Louise Stevens, Elizabeth Kalman, and Margaret Jane Stevens; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Undergraduate Class of 1943