Bert J. Haberfeld - 01-January-1934 - 05-September-2002It is with great sadness that I have to state that the long time president of the Greater New Haven CT Lost Chord Club Bert J. Haberfeld left this earth Thursday morning 9/5/02.
Bert was a very big advocate for the IAL and WebWhispers. Bert was born in 1930 had his operation in 1988 and spoke exclusively with an excellent esophageal voice. He leaves behind his wife Cathy, daughter Karen, two sons CJ and Mark and a sister Clara.
After 13 plus good years Bert had a reoccurrence of cancer, receiving chemo and radioactive seeds could not save him this time.
Bert attended several IAL conventions the last one my wife and I were lucky enough to join up with him in Nashville. Everyone who knew Bert will miss his strength, generousity, and commitment to
fellow lary's.
Monday 9/9/02, his funeral was held at 11:00 am in his home town of North Haven Connecticut. In lieu of flowers the family has asked that donations be sent to the "Herbst Scholarship Fund at Southern Connecticut State University" for speech language pathology and communication disorders. Bert and I are both graduates from SCSU's speech program. The scholarship goes to teaching young SLP'S help future larys regain speech.
Robert Herbst Sr. - 04-November-1925 - 05-March-2003
Robert Herbst, 77, of Cheshire, died Wednesday, (March 5, 2003) at Yale-New Haven Hospital after a long and courageous battle with illness. He was the loving husband of Marie "Mitzie" (Schultheis) Herbst.
Mr. Herbst was born Nov. 4, 1925 in Flushing, NY, son of the late Frank and Mae Herbst. He graduated from PS 107 in Flushing, NY, in January 1940 and from Bayside High School in 1944. He pursued an electrical degree at Mohawk College at Utica, NY. He continued his education under the GI Bill at Champlain College in Plattsburg, NY, until 1949. He graduated from Union College in
Schenectady, NY, with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in June 1951. He served as a corporal during World War II in the Philippines from 1944 to 1946 with the Tank Corps.
Mr. Herbst worked at GE in Schenectady from 1949 until 1958. He was Head of Test and Head of Medium Induction Motors. He helped develop the first atomic loop system at GE. He became Chief Electrical Engineer at Waterbury Farrel in Waterbury and Cheshire in 1958.
Upon leaving that position, he started Intergrated Industrial Systems, also known as I2S in Cheshire where he was President until 2002, when he became Chairman of the Board. The company moved to Wallingford and Yalesville. Mr. Herbst was a semi-pro football player in his earlier years and an excellent swimmer. He was Cub Master of Pack 96 for several years.
He was an ardent organic farmer and would supply his family and neighbors with produce. Besides his wife of 54 years, he leaves three sons, Robert Herbst and his wife, Lesley, of New Haven, John Herbst and his wife, Jeanne, of Haddam and Eric Herbst of Cheshire; four daughters, Donna Marie of Moodus, Julie Crane of Cheshire and Andrea Wilson and her husband, Justin, of Cheshire and Michele Morley and her husband, Peter, of Cheshire; and 16 grandchildren, Tara Forbes Murphy of Wallingford, Tiffany Forbes of Cheshire, Adam Herbst of Cheshire, Luke, Matthew, Marie and Wally Crane of Cheshire, Katherine, Julia, Robert and Victoria Herbst of Haddam, Dylan Michael of North Branford, Bradley, Wyatt and Kayla Morley of Cheshire and Taylor Wilson of Cheshire; and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his brother, Gerard Herbst; and his faithful dog, Jake. The funeral will be held Saturday at 9:45 a.m. from Slater Funeral Home, 242 So. Main St., to St. Bridget's Church for a Mass at 10:30 a.m. Burial, with military honors, will be in Hillside Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home, TODAY, from 4-8 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the Herbst SCSU Foundation, 501 Crescent St., New Haven, CT 06515.
This is an endowed scholarship fund for speech pathology, or to a charity of the donor's choice.
Published in the Hartford Courant on 3/7/2003.
