The Rev. Dr. Dixon A. Barr, a native of Crown Point, Indiana, was the son of Harold Standish Barr and Matilda Henning. He was married first to the late Charlotte Louise Van Deren, and then to Frances Fairfax Keller Barr. Dr. Barr was survived by his wife and three children: Edward Standish Barr, John McKee Barr, and Elizabeth Barr Masters (Mrs. James Brent), as well as four grandchildren.

Dr. Barr completed his undergraduate work at Ball State University , and later received a master's degree and doctorate from Columbia University. He had further theological education at St. George's College Jerusalem, the University of the South, and Lexington Theological Seminary. Dr. Barr, retired, was an ordained Episcopal priest and Canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington, KY.

Membership

• Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Delaware

• General Society of Colonial Wars (former Historian General and life member of the Council)

• National Gavel Society

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants (former Governor of the Kentucky Society and former Executive Committee Member at Large, General Society)

• The Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Honorary Governor General)

• National Society Sons of Colonial New England (former Governor General)

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Honorary President General)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Governor General)

• The National Huguenot Society (Honorary President General)

• Order of the First Families of Maine (President General)

• Dutch Colonial Society of Delaware (President)

• Colonial Order of the Acorn

• Order of Lafayette

• General Society of the War of 1812

• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

• General Society Sons of the Revolution

• Order of Founders and Patriots of America

• Presidential Families of America

• Society of Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters l607-l86l

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench & Bar l565-l86l

• Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• Society of Indiana Pioneers

• North American Manx Association (Life Member)

• St. Andrew's Society of the State of New York

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of the Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution

• The Hereditary Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia (Associate Member)

• First Families of Georgia, l733-l797 (Associate Member)

• The Society of the Friends of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle (Life Member)

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesman 1607-1783

• National Order of the Blue and Gray

• First Families of Kentucky (Chaplain General)

• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (Associate Member)

Chivalric Orders

The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Officer)

Listed In

• Who's Who in American Genealogy and Heraldry Vol. I

• Presidents and Deans of American Colleges and Universities 1966-67

• Kentucky Lives

• Life in the Bluegrass

Notes

Dr. Barr was a lecturer and teacher at National Genealogical Society conferences in the United States, as well as at other genealogical and hereditary societies. He was a life member of the Filson Historical Society, the Kentucky Historical Society, the National Genealogical Society, and the Kentucky Genealogical Society.

Joyce May McGehee Bockemuehl a native of Memphis, Tennessee. She was the only child of the late Edith May Willis, R.N. of Louisiana and Herbert Hillery McGehee, of Mississippi.

Mrs. Bockemuehl attended public schools in Lansing and Detroit until leaving for Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan where she was a political science major and planned to continue to law school. Marriage to Robert Russell Bockemuehl changed those plans. Mr. and Mrs. Bockemuehl have one son, Kenneth Forrest Bockemuehl and two grandchildren Brooke Nicole Bockemuehl, Esq. an attorney in Fort Myers, FL and Russell Forrest Bockemuehl of Gainesville, FL. Robert is a retired electrical engineer and department head of the General Motors Research Laboratories who volunteers his talent at Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic reading text books in scientific fields

Memberships

• National Gavel Society

• National Huguenot Society (Honorary President General)

• American Descendants of the House of Burgesses 1619-1699 (Organizing Governor General)

• National Society Dames of the Court of Honor (Honorary First Vice President General; Chaplain General)

• Jamestowne Society (former Auditor General, National Council, Sales Chairman)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (former National Chairman of Volunteer Genealogists)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (former Organizing Secretary General; Honorary State President)

• Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens (former Treasurer General; former Genealogist General; former Registrar General)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (former Second Deputy Governor General)

• Guild of Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (former Corresponding Secretary General)

• National Society Colonial Dames of the Seventeenth Century (former National Chairman Chorus Director)

• Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (former State President, Investment Chairman)

• Colonial Dames of America (former State President Chapter XXII)

• National Society Colonial Dames of America (Michigan Registrar)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (former member of the National Auditing Committee, former State President)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (former State President)

• National Society Magna Charta Dames (former Regent Michigan Division)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta

• Dutch Colonial Society of Delaware

• Order of Descendants of Pirates and Privateers

• First Families of Kentucky

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Councilor General)

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• Society of the Descendants of Colonial Clergy

• Huguenot Society Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia

• Flagon and Trencher

• Daughters of American Colonists (former Chapter Regent)

• Louisiana Colonials

• Daughters of the Republic of Texas

• First Families of Mississippi

• First Families of Georgia 1733-1797

• Colonial Order of the Crown

• United Daughters of the Confederacy

• National Society Southern Dames of America

Mrs. Bockemuehl was the Patron for the Hereditary Society Blue Book in 2000.

Notes

Mrs. Bockemuehl was a fifty-year member of the Order of Eastern Star, a twenty-seven-year member of The Village Woman’s Club, a private club with a philanthropic arm of community outreach, a thirty-year member of the P.E.O. sisterhood providing educational opportunities for women, offering scholarships and grants to assist women attain their goals.

Joyce authored one 700-page book Ezekiel Ross Jaques and Mary Evelyn Sering, Some of Their Ancestors and Descendants. She also worked on a book outlining and documenting her French lineages taking her from Louisiana to Quebec and Acadia.

She was made a Kentucky Colonel, she was a 27-year member of New England Historical and Genealogical Society and a longtime member of the Society of Genealogists in London.

Her avocational interests included philately, miniatures, needlework and music. She served on the state board of the Federation of Music Clubs where she administered a music therapy scholarship for 15 years. However, her devotion to genealogy took over. Consideration was given to becoming a certified genealogist but she found helping others find their lineages and membership in hereditary societies more rewarding.

Dr. Henry Jackson Darst, Jr., son of Henry J. Darst and Corine Fortune Darst, was a native of Kentucky. Dr. Darst’s grandfather, Dr. John C. Darst, practiced medicine in Pulaski and Roanoke, and his great grandfather, Major James H. Darst, was one of the most influential men in politics, banking and agriculture in Southwest Virginia. Dr. Darst was reared at Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia where his ancestors settled when the area was still frontier. His childhood home was within two miles of the graves of three Revolutionary soldiers and officers of the War of 1812 and the War Between the States from whom he descends. At an early age, he learned the significance of his heritage.

Dr. Henry Jackson Darst, Jr. was married to Ann Harrison Booker Darst.

Dr. Darst earned his Master’s Degree (History of Social Thought), and his Ph.D. (History of Education) from the University of Virginia. He taught at Lynchburg College and the University of Virginia. Dr. Darst was a senior educator in the Department of the Army and was involved with the graduate civilian education of regular army officers, and overall operation of Army service schools. Since 1960 he operated two farms, 'Bird Hill' in James City County and 'Heron Hill' in York County, primarily engaged in the breeding and raising thoroughbred and quarter horses.

Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia (Registrar)

• Society of the Colonial Wars in Virginia (Registrar)

• Society of the War of 1812 in Virginia

• Huguenot Society of Virginia (President)

• Sons of the Revolution in Virginia

• Sons of the American Revolution (Williamsburg Chapter President)

• Sons of Confederate Veterans

• Military Order of the Stars and Bars

Authorships

• Ante-Bellum Virginia Disciples: an Account of the Origins and Early Development of the Disciples of Christ in Virginia (1959)

• The Darsts of Virginia: a Chronical of Ten Generations in the Old Dominion with Sketches of the Cecil, Charlton, Glendy, Grigsby, Larew, Miller, Trolinger, Welch and Wygal and WysorFamilies (1972)

• Dublin and the Darsts: a Portrait of a Virginia Country Town and One of its Families (1992)

Notes

Dr. Darst was a member of the Commonwealth Club in Richmond, Virginia and the Farmington Club in Charlottesville, Virginia. He also held membership in the Williamsburg Rotary Club and Middle Plantation Club of Williamsburg, Virginia.

He was Chairman of the Colonial Soil and Water Conservation District, an agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Dr. Darst was appointed by Governor Allen as Chairman of a State Board to recommend the acquisition of conservation easements. He was President of the Charles City--James City-- New Kent-- York Farm Bureau, as well as President of the Four Rivers Agricultural Services Corp. Dr. Darst served as Secretary for the James City Board of Agriculture.

In addition, Dr. Darst was Director of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society, and a member of the Virginia Historical Society, the New River Historical Society, the Rockbridge Historical Society, and the Association for Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

Duane L.C.M. Galles, Esq., Ph.D., son of Lester Galles and his wife Nettie Mealman is a native of Adrian, Minnesota. Mr. Galles holds degrees from George Washington University (B.A.), William Mitchell College of Law (J.D.), University of Ottawa (Ph.D.) and Saint Paul University, Ottawa. (J.C.D.). He has a distinguished career as an attorney, counselor-at-law and canonist. Mr. Galles was called to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota in 1977, and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1981.

Memberships

• National Gavel Society

• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York

• Colonial Order of the Acorn

• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania

• Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Wisconsin

• Veteran Corps of Artillery in the State of New York

• National Society Sons of Colonial New England (Honorary Governor General)

• National Society of Sons of the American Colonists (Honorary Governor General)

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Honorary President General)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirugiens (Honorary President General)

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (recipient of the Minute Man Award; former Vice President General, North Central District)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (former Vice President General)

• Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

• Flagon and Trencher

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (former Corresponding Secretary General)

• Jamestowne Society

• Military Society of the War of 1812

• National Order of the Blue and Gray (Commanding General)

• National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (former Editor General)

• Order of Founders and Patriots of America (former Treasurer General)

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States (former Recorder)

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy (former Chancellor General)

• Society of the Descendants of Washington’s Army at Valley Forge

• General Society of the War of 1812(former President of the Minnesota Society)

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar

Armorial

Duane Leroy Charles Mealman Galles

• Arms: Barry wavy of six Azure and Argent a cock Gules crested, beaked, jellopped and armed Or a bordure of the Last for difference.

• Crest: A tower Sable masoned Argent window and port of the Last surmounted by a star of six points also of the Last.

• Motto: SPERAVIMUS SPERABIMUS

• Matriculated: The Court of the Lord Lyon, 6th February 1995. Lyon Register volume 74, folio 24.

• The arms were granted to Mr. Galles' father without the bordure by Don Vincente de Cadenas y Vicent, Chronicler King of Arms of Spain.

Publications

• "The Arms of Two Ladies: Recent Grant by Canada Herald and the Chief Herald of Ireland", Heraldry in Canada (2006), pp. 73-93.

• “A Prince Edward Islander, a Basilica, and its Arms,” Heraldry in Canada (Summer, 2005), pp. 24-29.

• Res pretiosa as the Church’s Cultural Property: The Origin and Development of Ecclesiastical Legislation (JCD dissertation, 2003), Saint Paul University, Ottawa.

• “On the Sail of a Windmill,” Heraldry in Canada (Fall, 2003).

• “The Washington Arms Today,” The Coat of Arms (Spring, 2003)

• “’Priestless’ Sunday Liturgies and the Church Musician,” Sacred Music (Winter, 2001)

• “The Question of the Choral Sanctus After Vatican II: A Canon Lawyer’s Opinion,” Sacred Music (Fall, 2000).

• “Roman Catholic Missionary Prelates,” Ecclesiastical Law Journal (January, 2000).

• “American Augmentations of Arms,” The Double Treasure (1998).

• “Virgins and Vespers,” Sacred Music (Summer, Fall, 1998).

• “The Dress and Address of Deacons,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review (August-September, 1997).

• ”The Art of Basilica Making,” Sacred Music (Winter, 1997).

• “The Hispanic Musical Presence in the New Evangelization on the United States,” Sacred Music (Summer,1997).

• “Baltimore’s Failed Bid for the American Primacy,” Sacred Music (Fall, 1996).

• “Musical Monsignori: Or, Milords of Music Honoured by the Pope,” Sacred Music, (Fall, Winter, Spring, 1995).

• “Deacons and Church Music,” Sacred Music (Winter, 1994).

• “The Heraldry of Sacred Music,” Sacred Music (Summer, 1993, Fall, 1993, Winter, 1993, Spring 1994).

• “The Church’s Sacramental Registers,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review (December, 1992).

• ”Music for the Collegiate Church, Yesterday and Today,” Sacred Music (Spring, 1992).

• ”Inaugurating a New Basilica,” Sacred Music (Fall, 1991).

• ”Abandoned Personal Property in Rental Units: What’s a Landlord to Do?”

• The Hennepin Lawyer (January-February, 1992).

• ”Concerts in Church: A Canonical Opinion,” Sacred Music (Spring, 1991).

• “Statutory Profile: Minnesota’s Unclaimed Property Law,” Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy (Fall, 1990).

• ”The Benedictine Basilica and the Latin Liturgy,” in Cum Angelis Canere: Studies in Sacred Music and Pastoral Liturgy in Honour of Richard J. Schuler (Saint Paul, MN, 1990).

• ”Music for the Basilica,” Sacred Music (Summer, 1990).

• “A Southern Call to Arms: An Armorial Compact to Revive the Office of Carolina Herald,” William Mitchell Law Review (Fall, 1990).

• “The Basilica after Vatican II,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review (October, 1989).

• “Church Music and Private Chapels,” Sacred Music (Winter, 1989).

• ”Anglican Use Sacred Music,” Sacred Music (Spring, 1989).

• “The Civil Law,” The Jurist (Summer, 1989).

• “Concerts in Church,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review (November 1988).

• “Unclaimed Property Law and Probate Lawyers,” Bench and Bar of Minnesota (July, 1988).

• “Canonesses and Plainchant,” Sacred Music (Spring, 1987).

• “Liturgical Abuse and the Church Musician,” Sacred Music (Summer, Fall, 1984).

• “Native Indians in Heraldry,” Heraldry in Canada (Winter, 2002), pp. 20-23, (Summer, 2002), p. 18, (Fall, 2002), pp. 13-14, (Winter, 2003), pp. 24-27.

• “A Vice-regal Armorial and the Order of Manitoba,” Heraldry in Canada (Summer, 2001), 9-10.

• ”New Arms for Saint George,” Heraldry in Canada (June, 2000).

• “Nobbe Family Arms: Noble Simplicity of a Middle European Kind,” Heraldry in Canada (December, 1999), pp. 10-15.

• “Papal Armory—A Brief History,” Heraldry in Canada (September, 1997), pp. 6-15.

• “Some Canadian Badges,” The Coat of Arms (Spring, 1997), pp. 28-36.

• “Camels in Heraldry,” The Coat of Arms (Winter, 1995), pp. 167-168.

• “Armorial Ensigns of Catholic Missionary Prelates,” The Coat of Arms (Winter, 1994), pp. 107-111.

• “The Equestrian Order of Loreto,” The Coat of Arms (Spring, 1994), pp. 276-283.

• “American Orders of Chivalry,” The Coat of Arms (Spring, 1993), pp. 2-13.

• “The Reform of American Ecclesiastical Heraldry Revisited,” American Benedictine Review (December, 1992), pp. 414-428.

• “Armorial Ensigns for Shrines,” Heraldry in Canada (Spring, 1992), 27-29.

• “A Lawyer‘s Crest for America: Some Thoughts on its British Sources and Significance,” The Coat of Arms (Spring, 1992), pp. 222-224.

• “Heraldry in the International Law of War,” The Coat of Arms (Spring, 1991), pp. 2-6.

• “Heraldry’s Keys,” Heraldry in Canada (December, 1990), pp. 33-35.

• “Pilgrims in History and Heraldry,” The Coat of Arms (Spring, 1989), pp. 2-8.

• “The Order of Saint Cecilia,” Sacred Music (Fall, 1988), pp. 7-9.

• “Founders and Patriots Heraldry,” Order of Founders and Patriots Bulletin (Spring, 1988), pp. 11-15.

• “Augmentations of Honour and the War of 1812,” Heraldry in Canada (September, 1987), pp. 8-13.

• “Heraldry and the Diaconate,” Heraldry in Canada (March, 1987), pp. 11-13.

• “American Heraldic Authority,” Heraldry in Canada (Fall, 1986), pp. 30-31.

• “Papal Musical Knights,” Sacred Music (Summer, 1985), pp. 13-19.

• “The Story Behind the SAR Badge,” SAR Magazine (Spring, 1980), p. 18

Notes

Mr. Galles was named a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels and holds membership in the Army and Navy Club of Washington. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and a member of the Heraldry Society of London; the Heraldry Society of Scotland; the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada; the Canon Law Society of America; the Canon Law Society of America of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as an associate member of the Académie internationale d’heraldique.

A native New Yorker raised in Darien, Connecticut, Sidney Hughes was the son of the late Sidney Worthington Hughes and Mary Gossler Hughes. Sidney attended the Buckley, Thomas, and King schools, and Yale University. He served in the US Army in the Pacific theatre during WWII. In 1953, he married Annette "Cloty" McMaster. He is survived by his wife, their children, Nancy and Thomas, and two grandchildren, Philip and Matthew, all of New York City.

Sidney was proud of the fact that he never obtained a Social Security Number and stated on more than one occasion that, “his father or grandfather had endowed the Colonial Order of the Acorn so that there would always be alcohol at the events.”

Those who knew Sydney remember a man of great good humor, gentleness and generosity. He illuminated the days of his family with love, and those of his many friends with storytelling, hospitality, and fellowship. His favorite verse of the Bible was “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” He was from the old school in New York Society and, in some ways, the 'last of the Mohegans'.

Memberships

• General Society of Colonial Wars (Governor of the New York Society)

• Colonial Order of the Acorn (Chancellor for Life)

Chivalric Orders

The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Commander)

Notes

Sidney was well-known for his interest in head covering (with over forty hats in his collection). His tri-cornered chapeau, worn at all Society of Colonial Wars functions, is well known by those who knew him. A writer and raconteur par excellence with an endless repertoire, Mr. Hughes was a member of the Union Club, the Church Club, the Players Club, the Knickerbocker Club, The Brook, the Coffee House. He was also an active member of the Pilgrims and Holland Lodge No. 8.

Susan Frances Pierce Patterson, the daughter of Albert Edward and Sarah Frances Jarvis Pierce, was a native of Oklahoma. Mrs. Patterson received her B.S. in Medical Technology from the University of Tulsa. She was married to Mr. Louis Winfield Patterson and had three children Steven Thomas, David Edward (deceased), and Reynolds West Patterson, and four grandchildren.

Memberships

• National Gavel Society (Treasurer)

• Order of First Families of Virginia (Registrar)

• Order of the Crown in America (Chaplain)

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• National Society Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede (Honorary President)

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Founder Member)

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (First Vice President)

• Colonial Dames of America (former President of Chapter XII)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century, Inc. (Honorary President General)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Honorary State Regent)

• Dames of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660

• National Society Daughters of American Colonists (Honorary National President)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192

• Military Order of the Crusades

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (National Chairman of the Bylaws Committee)

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (National Parliamentarian)

• United States Daughters of the War of 1812 (Second Vice President)

• National Society of New England Women (Director General; Organized the Oklahoma Colony)

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution

• First Families of the Twin Territories

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts

• Flagon & Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers

• National Society Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

• Plymouth Hereditary Society

• Friends of Saint George (Descendant Member)

• Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia (Associate)

Listed In

• The Hereditary Register of the United States of America, 1983 and prior

Other Notes

Mrs. Patterson was a member Delta Delta Delta and the P.E.O. Sisterhood, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, and the Clopton Family Association. She was also member of the United Methodist Church in Dallas, where she was involved extensively with church activities over the years, including choir, teaching Sunday School, and with the United Methodist Women. Mrs. Patterson was also a Kentucky Colonel. She enjoyed genealogy, needlepoint and reading.

Herbert Keyser Zearfoss, Esq., son of the late Dean W. and Susan (Keyser) Zearfoss was a native of Montandon, Pennsylvania. In 1953, he married Thelma McCarthy, who preceded him in death in 1984. Mr. and Mrs. Zearfoss had three children, Timothy McCarthy Zearfoss, Jonathan Andrew Zearfoss, and Sarah Creighton Zearfoss. Mrs. Zearfoss died in 1984. Mr. Zearfoss married, in 1992, Suzanne Vander Veer.

Mr. Zearfoss was a 1947 graduate of Middleburg High School, where he participated in sports and plays and was a member of the band. He earned his B.A. in political science from Bucknell University in 1951. Mr. Zearfoss attended Yale University and joined the Navy. He was a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1954 to 1958 and in the latter year earned the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from American University

Mr. Zearfoss enjoyed a brilliant career as an attorney. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar and opened a law office in Lewisburg in 1959, practicing as Fetter and Zearfoss. He then joined the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company in Philadelphia, where he served as Assistant Counsel from 1960 to 1967. He was a Justice of the Peace in Radnor Township, Delaware County from 1966 to 1967 and an officer in the Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1968. In 1968 he was elected a State Representative to the Pennsylvania General Assembly and served for five terms, 1968 to 1978. He then returned to the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company, where he served from 1978 through 1982 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. In 1982 he joined Provident Indemnity Life Insurance, where he served as Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel. From 1991 until his retirement in 2001 he was Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary at Teleflex, Inc.

Memberships

• Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati (former member of the General Society Standing Committee; former Treasurer of the Delaware Society)

• Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

• General Society of the War of 1812 (former President General)

• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania (former Governor)

• Netherlands Society of Philadelphia (former President)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (former Vice President of the Pennsylvania Society)

• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (former Judge- Advocate-in-Chief; former Commander of the Pennsylvania Commandery)

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution

• National Huguenot Society (former Treasurer of the Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania)

• Welcome Society of Pennsylvania

Other Notes

Mr. Zearfoss was perhaps best known, as the cheerful, engaged and inspirational leader of volunteer organizations throughout the Delaware Valley. His interests were expansive, stretching, for example, from the Boy Scouts of America to the Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia (where he served as Treasurer at the time of his death).

In 1945, Herb became the first Eagle Scout in Middleburg. He attended Camp Karoondinha and was a camp counselor. He was an inspirational leader of organizations such as the Boy Scouts, which honored him with the Silver Beaver Award in 1989. He was president of the Genealogy Society of Pennsylvania for 13 years, and was elected honorary president for life, just two weeks before his death. Mr. Zearfoss was also a Kentucky Colonel.

Mr. Zearfoss was a member of the Merion Cricket Club and the Philadelphia Club. He worshipped at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, where he sang in the choir.