Louis Bernard Herbert
September 10, 1945 - July 9, 2000
Louis
"Lou" Bernard Herbert was SCAFO's 60th President. This website was
Lou's concept and was created under his direction when he was
President. He will be missed, but not forgotten, by his friends and
colleagues in the Southern California Association of Fingerprint
Officers.
Lou was born
September 10, 1945, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He graduated from Ringe Technical High School
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1963.
Lou attended
Northeastern University of Massachusetts for 2 years studying
liberal arts before joining the United States Air Force in January
1965. He served as an Air Force Medical Technician and a Supervisor
of Emergency Services until his retirement in January 1985.
Lou married his
wife, Sandra, on March 4, 1967. They have three children, Derek,
Christopher, and Michael.
In 1985 Lou
moved his family to Moreno
Valley, California. Lou joined the Riverside County
District Attorney's Office, Bureau of Investigation, on October 7,
1985, as an Investigative Assistant for the Subpoena Service Unit.
On June 29, 1989, Lou was promoted to the position of Forensic
Technician and spent the next few years building a fully functional
Forensics Unit for the Riverside Office. Lou was promoted again to
the position of Supervising Forensic Technician on August 12, 1999.
Lou was very
involved with professional forensic and law enforcement associations
throughout the State of California, including the Riverside County
District Attorney Investigator's Association, The California
Association for Property and Evidence (CAPE), who recognized Lou as
the Property Officer of the Year for 1999, the Southern California
Association of Fingerprint Officers (SCAFO), where he served as our
60th President, the High Technology Crime Investigation Association
and the International Association of Identification. He was also an
instructor for the American Red Cross, Riverside Chapter.
Lou was killed
on the afternoon of Sunday, July 9, 2000, in a traffic accident near
Kingman,
Arizona, while traveling home with his wife
after vacationing and attending a family reunion in Detroit, Michigan.
The trailer Lou was towing was caught by a sudden gust of wind and
overturned on the freeway, causing the car to overturn also.
Lou was survived by his wife of nearly 34 years, Sandra, his 3 sons,
Derek, Christopher and Michael, a sister, Helen Ford of
Cambridge,
Massachusetts, half-sister Dorothy Robinson,
half-brother Russell O'Bnnes, half-brother William Trotman, and an
aunt, Edith Robertson of
Boston, Massachusetts.
