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Herb Wiggin

Posted 2020-09-29 by mhenderson
Published in The Miner on Sept. 26, 2020 -
Kingman, Arizona -

Herb Wiggin, 90, of Kingman, Arizona died early Saturday morning.

Herb was originally from Haverhill, Massachusetts and moved with his
mother and youngest brother to San Diego in 1943 during World War II.

He served proudly in the Air Force during the Korean War. He worked
for the San Diego Unified School District until he retired after 30
years. He was active with his wife and children in backpacking,
mountain climbing and rock climbing.

After serving a short time with the Peace Corps on the Caribbean
island of St. Kitts, he and his wife moved to Kingman, Arizona. Once
in Kingman, Herb started working for the Mohave County School District
as a psychologist. He worked nearly 25 years and retired.

He is preceded in death by his wife, Julia, who died in October, 2012.
He is survived by his brother, John Wiggin of Las Vegas, Nevada; and
his daughters, Debbie (Wiggin) Veale and her husband Donald of Poway,
California, Pam (Wiggin) Hoots of Las Vegas, Nevada, and Cheri
(Wiggin) Smith of Kingman, Arizona.

He has four grandchildren – Joshua Veale (Ashlee), Nathan Veale
(Jennifer), Joy Pritchard (Nick), and Andrew Smith. Also, he has four
great-grandchildren, Marcia Smith, Dalinar and Perrin Pritchard, and
Astrid Veale.





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