Benjamin Herbert Ferrell

Benjamin Herbert Ferrell

OGDEN a€" Benjamin Herbert "Herb" Ferrell, our beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, uncle and friend, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at his home in Ogden. He was 99 years old.

He was born December 31, 1908 in Mountain View Alberta, Canada, to James Scoby and Rebecca Anthony Kilgrow Ferrell.

Herb married Laura Packer on August 18, 1936 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.

He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as a Bishop, High Counselor and temple sealer. He served five full-time missions and made many friends all over the world through his missionary service.

Herb was a "Jack-of-all-Trades". He did repair maintenance work well into his nineties. He often worked two jobs, running an interstate trucking business and later a coal business and lumber yard, as well as working for the Ogden Union Railway and Depot Company as a locomotive engineer, retiring in 1973.

He enjoyed gardening, reading and spending time with his large posterity.

Surviving are his wife Laura of 72 years of Ogden; his children and their spouses, Dee and Vickie Ferrell, Ellis and Larraine Ferrell, Ellen and Leon Whiting, Wynn and Paula Ferrell, Kathy and John Dunkley, Kim and Carma Ferrell, Lance and LouJean Ferrell, Mike and Joan Ferrell, and Linda and John Keller; 52 grandchildren and 106 great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are two sisters, Orpha Ellstead and Theressa Lovendale.

He was preceded in death by his daughter and son-in-law, Kaye and Robert Larson, two grandchildren, his parents, two brothers and four sisters.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Country Hills Ward Chapel, 1401 Country Hills Drive, with Bishop Nate Pierce officiating.

Friends may call at Lindquist''s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd., on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday at the Ward Chapel 9:45 to 10:45 a.m.

Interment, Lindquist''s Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch, 1718 Combe Road.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Perpetual Education Fund, or the General Missionary Fund.

Send condolences to the family at: www.lindquistmortuary.com