James H. Herbert ’40

Jim Herbert died Aug. 24, 2013. He was 95.

Raised in Columbia, S.C., he spent summers on the family farm, Woodside, in Fauquier County, Va. He entered Princeton from Episcopal High School and was a member of Charter Club. After gradua-tion, Jim returned to Virginia to become a cattle farmer.

In 1941 he joined the Army Air Corps, flying combat missions in P-38s and P-51s over Europe. Dis-charged in 1944 as a major, Jim earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and an Air Medal with five oak leaf clusters. He continued flying into his late 80s.

Jim married Betty Thomson in 1948. They raised five children at Woodside. In retirement, they en-joyed Pawleys Island, S.C., but recently moved to Westminster-Canterbury, a life-care community in Winchester, Va.

Jim is survived by Betty; their children and spouses, Elizabeth and Dr. John Cottrell, Jim and Stewart Herbert, Beverley and Kathleen Herbert, Bruce and Nancy Herbert, and Sarah Albritton and Andrew LaRowe; nine grandchildren; 10 nieces and nephews; and two sisters. His brother, Robert Beverley Herbert Jr., died in 1977. Our prayers and thoughts go out to this grand family as they celebrate Jim’s long, well-lived life.