HERB, EDMOUND
Edmound Jerald Herb Jr. (Big Ed) died of liver cancer December 9, 2011 at home in the arms of his beloved, surrounded by friends and loved ones. At Thanksgiving he stated that he had made his peace with God and was ready to join Him. Although he had shown interest in several different religions, he declared himself a Baptist.
Ed was born in Lake City July 29, 1950 and lived most of his life in North Central Florida. In his youth he was a member of the Boy Scouts, the Four H Club and the Future Farmers of America (FFA). His FFA teams won many competitions. In 1967, the land judging team won the state competition and went to nationals in Kansas City. He never lost his appreciation of livestock and gardening and enjoyed going to the Florida State Fair in the last year of his life.
Graduating from Gainesville High School in 1968, Ed played football for the GHS Purple Hurricanes. He earned his bachelors and masters degrees in rehabilitation counseling from the University of Florida. He was a Florida Gator fan. He worked for the State of Florida at Tacachale and the Department of Corrections as a mental health counselor.
He loved to fish and kayak the waterways of Florida. One memorable trip was getting stuck overnight on the Oklawaha river surrounded by hundreds of glowing alligator eyes. Traveling was another love. In May of this year he was thrilled to get to the Museum of Natural History in New York City to see the African animal collection of Teddy Roosevelt. In 2007 he marveled at the monarch butterfly migration in Mexico.
He enjoyed riding his Honda Goldwing in his last months.
For twenty five years Ed was sober by the grace of God with the help of the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. Generously sharing his experience, strength and hope with those seeking recovery from addictive illness, Big Ed helped hundreds of others get and stay sober. His influence was evident in the outpouring of love and support from the Gainesville AA community in the last weeks of his life. As people shared stories about Ed with his family, they got to learn a heartwarming side of him they had not been privileged to know.
Ed is survived by his mother, Edna (Townsend) Herb; sister, Rena (Jack) Ackley; nephews Benjamin and Jacob (Seanor); numerous cousins and his beloved, Annie Opuda. His father Edmound preceded him in death.
Ed was buried at Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery where he will be visited regularly by wild turkeys and sandhill cranes.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 7 at 2pm at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship church, 3536 NW 8TH Ave Gainesville.
Donations in his memory may be made to Haven Hospice, the Alachua Conservation Trust, Mayo Clinic or North Central Florida Intergroup.
Published in Gainesville Sun from January 4 to January 5, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
SET THE DATE NOTICE FOR 2013/45TH REUNION
Dear Classmate,
Your friends, our GHS 68 Reunion Committee, have had our first business meeting in three years, and started reunion planning. We ask you, first and foremost, to hold open the weekend of June 21-23, 2013, for our 45th Class Reunion. No, we’re not crazy. It’s just that when we announced the date for our 40th in 2008, about one year in advance, we already had some conflicts with classmates’ plans for their annual family reunion or children’s weddings. Now, those are very important events, so we didn’t expect anyone to move a wedding or cancel their other reunion. We are hoping, though, to announce our next GHS reunion in plenty of time to allow anyone inclined to do so, to gently steer those other events to dates around it. These remaining nineteen months will likely fly by!
If that strikes anyone as presumptuous or just plain silly, we apologize. It just reflects the strength of our desire to get as many classmates as possible together and to have as happy an event in 2013 as we did three years ago.
In that regard, we are contacting as many classmates as possible, first to be sure we can get in touch and also to ask for your help locating other classmates that we are not yet in touch with. If your contact information has changed, please let me know with your reply. We hope to add a Facebook page to our contact efforts as well as continue to use the Reunion Blog site at http://ghs68.blogspot.com (Jimmy continues to update it) and to periodically send out key information by first class mail. Before long, we’ll start planning and letting you know the reunion details. You’ll be hearing from us!
The Class of 1968 is still making an impact at GHS as well as in Gainesville and wherever else classmates are found around the country and the world. We are active seniors and seniors-to-be, hard-working professionals and business leaders, raising children and mostly grandchildren now, and loving life. Many have retired or see retirement right around the corner. We mourn our deceased classmates and plan to recognize them again with a memorial service at the reunion, and we grieve with other classmates as we lose parents and loved ones or struggle with health issues and aging. At GHS, our class continues to recognize a student and teacher each year with the Class of 1968 Senior Writing Prize. Jim and Bill presented our sixth annual award last June, this year to a young man who is already a published poet, and to his teacher, in honor of all the great teachers we had.
Time marches on! Soon we’ll be greeting you on Friday night at some large Gainesville hotspot to kickoff a fine weekend party like we haven’t seen for, well, the last three years. Please save the dates:
GHS Class of 1968 - 45th CLASS REUNION
JUNE 21-23, 2013
In Gainesville
We’d love to see you there! We’ll be in touch.
YOUR REUNION COMMITTEE:
Susan Hazen Balloon
Jim Conner
Robbie Davis ’77
Bill Harlan
Jackie Cooter Hoover
Your friends, our GHS 68 Reunion Committee, have had our first business meeting in three years, and started reunion planning. We ask you, first and foremost, to hold open the weekend of June 21-23, 2013, for our 45th Class Reunion. No, we’re not crazy. It’s just that when we announced the date for our 40th in 2008, about one year in advance, we already had some conflicts with classmates’ plans for their annual family reunion or children’s weddings. Now, those are very important events, so we didn’t expect anyone to move a wedding or cancel their other reunion. We are hoping, though, to announce our next GHS reunion in plenty of time to allow anyone inclined to do so, to gently steer those other events to dates around it. These remaining nineteen months will likely fly by!
If that strikes anyone as presumptuous or just plain silly, we apologize. It just reflects the strength of our desire to get as many classmates as possible together and to have as happy an event in 2013 as we did three years ago.
In that regard, we are contacting as many classmates as possible, first to be sure we can get in touch and also to ask for your help locating other classmates that we are not yet in touch with. If your contact information has changed, please let me know with your reply. We hope to add a Facebook page to our contact efforts as well as continue to use the Reunion Blog site at http://ghs68.blogspot.com (Jimmy continues to update it) and to periodically send out key information by first class mail. Before long, we’ll start planning and letting you know the reunion details. You’ll be hearing from us!
The Class of 1968 is still making an impact at GHS as well as in Gainesville and wherever else classmates are found around the country and the world. We are active seniors and seniors-to-be, hard-working professionals and business leaders, raising children and mostly grandchildren now, and loving life. Many have retired or see retirement right around the corner. We mourn our deceased classmates and plan to recognize them again with a memorial service at the reunion, and we grieve with other classmates as we lose parents and loved ones or struggle with health issues and aging. At GHS, our class continues to recognize a student and teacher each year with the Class of 1968 Senior Writing Prize. Jim and Bill presented our sixth annual award last June, this year to a young man who is already a published poet, and to his teacher, in honor of all the great teachers we had.
Time marches on! Soon we’ll be greeting you on Friday night at some large Gainesville hotspot to kickoff a fine weekend party like we haven’t seen for, well, the last three years. Please save the dates:
GHS Class of 1968 - 45th CLASS REUNION
JUNE 21-23, 2013
In Gainesville
We’d love to see you there! We’ll be in touch.
YOUR REUNION COMMITTEE:
Susan Hazen Balloon
Jim Conner
Robbie Davis ’77
Bill Harlan
Jackie Cooter Hoover
Monday, September 5, 2011
Joe Hudson, retired GHS principal, has died. RIP, Mr. Hudson
HUDSON, JOSEPH
Joseph "Joe" Thomas Hudson, Jr., age 88 of Gainesville, FL passed away in Gainesville on Thursday September 1, 2011. Joe was born in Jacksonville, FL on August 17, 1923.
He served in the U S Army during WWII, in both the African and European Theatres. Following the war he returned to Gainesville and married Virginia Elizabeth Munson and attended the University of Florida. He received his Bachelor's degree in English and History, and also a Master's degree in Education. He began his career by teaching school in Arcadia, then in Crystal River where he also coached basketball. They moved back to Gainesville in 1953 and he was a counselor for the juvenile court system before becoming the Assistant Principal at Gainesville High School. Later he became the Principal at GHS, and then the Principal at Terwilliger, finally retiring in 1985 as the Principal at Williams Elementary School.
Joe was a member of the First Baptist Church, the Gainesville Lions Club, and worked for over 40 years in the University of Florida's Press Box during football games.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Betty Hudson, his daughter Elizabeth Salter and her husband Jeff Salter, and his granddaughter Alexandra Salter.
Graveside Services will be held at 2:00 PM on Tuesday September 6, 2011 at 2:00 PM at Evergreen Cemetery 401 SE 21st Avenue Gainesville, FL with military honors. Milam Funeral and Cremation Services 311 South Main Street Gainesville, FL 32601 (352) 376-5361
Joseph "Joe" Thomas Hudson, Jr., age 88 of Gainesville, FL passed away in Gainesville on Thursday September 1, 2011. Joe was born in Jacksonville, FL on August 17, 1923.
He served in the U S Army during WWII, in both the African and European Theatres. Following the war he returned to Gainesville and married Virginia Elizabeth Munson and attended the University of Florida. He received his Bachelor's degree in English and History, and also a Master's degree in Education. He began his career by teaching school in Arcadia, then in Crystal River where he also coached basketball. They moved back to Gainesville in 1953 and he was a counselor for the juvenile court system before becoming the Assistant Principal at Gainesville High School. Later he became the Principal at GHS, and then the Principal at Terwilliger, finally retiring in 1985 as the Principal at Williams Elementary School.
Joe was a member of the First Baptist Church, the Gainesville Lions Club, and worked for over 40 years in the University of Florida's Press Box during football games.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Betty Hudson, his daughter Elizabeth Salter and her husband Jeff Salter, and his granddaughter Alexandra Salter.
Graveside Services will be held at 2:00 PM on Tuesday September 6, 2011 at 2:00 PM at Evergreen Cemetery 401 SE 21st Avenue Gainesville, FL with military honors. Milam Funeral and Cremation Services 311 South Main Street Gainesville, FL 32601 (352) 376-5361
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Hinson obituary link is below
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/gainesville/obituary.aspx?n=richard-hinson&pid=150439222&fhid=4014
Thursday, September 23, 2010
TRY THIS TO SEE OUR 68 YEARBOOK ON-LINE
http://www.classmates.com/yearbooks/52039/52039?s=email&e_prod=YBNW&e_date=071910&e_ver=C&e_slot=M1&e_content=A1&e_target=CM4578&e_sub=&fromEmail=true
Monday, September 20, 2010
COPY AND PASTE THIS LINK INTO YOUR BROWSER TO SEE THE '68 YEARBOOK ON-LINE
http://www.classmates.com/yearbooks/52039/52039?s=email&e_prod=YBNW&e_date=071910&e_ver=C&e_slot=M1&e_content=A1&e_target=CM4578&e_sub=&fromEmail=true
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Class of 70's reunion is going on this week end
The Class of 1970 is holding their reunion this week end somewhere in GNV.
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