The Oregonian (Portland, OR) - March 8, 1993
RICHARD H. HERGERT
The Mass of Christian Burial for Richard H. Hergert will be said at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Matthew Catholic Church in Hillsboro. Mr. Hergert died of cancer Friday in his Hillsboro home. He was 75.
He was born on March 18, 1917, in Hillsboro. He moved to the Oregon coast with his family while a youth and graduated from Garibaldi High School. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as an aviation radio man. He was a survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Mr. Hergert worked as an insurance agent. He started and operated the Valley Insurance Agency in Beaverton from 1960 to 1975, when he went into semiretirement. He had lived in Portland and Beaverton before moving to Hillsboro in the mid-1970s. He was a member of St. Matthew Catholic Church.
He married Helen Kuper in Sherwood on June 16, 1942.
In addition to his wife, survivors include daughters, Julie Kemper of Forest Grove, and Annie Hunt of Portland; sons, James, Lawrence and Robert, all of Beaverton, and Richard of Hillsboro; sisters, Marjorie McKernan of Forest Grove, and Thelma Squires of Nampa, Idaho; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in St. Matthew Catholic Cemetery.
The family requests that remembrances be contributions to either St. Vincent DePaul in care of St. Matthew Catholic Church or to the St. Vincent Hospice.
The Oregonian (Portland, OR) - March 8, 1993
RICHARD H. HERGERT
The Mass of Christian Burial for Richard H. Hergert will be said at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Matthew Catholic Church in Hillsboro. Mr. Hergert died of cancer Friday in his Hillsboro home. He was 75.
He was born on March 18, 1917, in Hillsboro. He moved to the Oregon coast with his family while a youth and graduated from Garibaldi High School. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as an aviation radio man. He was a survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Mr. Hergert worked as an insurance agent. He started and operated the Valley Insurance Agency in Beaverton from 1960 to 1975, when he went into semiretirement. He had lived in Portland and Beaverton before moving to Hillsboro in the mid-1970s. He was a member of St. Matthew Catholic Church.
He married Helen Kuper in Sherwood on June 16, 1942.
In addition to his wife, survivors include daughters, Julie Kemper of Forest Grove, and Annie Hunt of Portland; sons, James, Lawrence and Robert, all of Beaverton, and Richard of Hillsboro; sisters, Marjorie McKernan of Forest Grove, and Thelma Squires of Nampa, Idaho; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in St. Matthew Catholic Cemetery.
The family requests that remembrances be contributions to either St. Vincent DePaul in care of St. Matthew Catholic Church or to the St. Vincent Hospice.
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