Hashbituary

Schedule for Greg Herbert's Cremation Ceremony

Arrangements have been made with the Laem Petch Temple in Patong Beach starting Friday the 11th September. Monks will be performing prayers as follows:

On Friday 11th 19:00 PM prayers for funeral, all friends invited.

On Saturday 12th 19:00 PM prayers for funeral, all friends invited.

On Sunday the 13th at 14:30 PM we will start the cremation ceremony. After the ceremony there will be a Life Celebration & Remembrance party at the Expat Hotel with food and drinks to celebrate Greg's life.

The temple is located just off the Beach Road directly behind the soccer field. Turn just before the field to use the driveway entrance between the playing field and the Patong public library.

'A Charming Character In A Colorful Life'

Greg Herbert, my dear friend, was blessed to live in an era that allowed him to live an adventurous life on a global scale. Having known great fame, the low ebb of poverty and just about all else in between, he strode forth with the confident, contented charm of a genuine gentleman who treated despair with disdain and exuded humble equanimity through it all.

A life-long bachelor with no issue, Greg was a world-class sportsman, a pioneer in his professional life as a male supermodel and a consummate ladies' man.

Invited to play with Australia's rugby union national team, the Wallabies, in 1960 at the tender age of 20 as a member of the Northern Suburbs Rugby Club of Sydney, Australia, he went on to play for two counties in the UK and for the Rosslyn Park Rugby Club in the early 1960's. He also tried out for the New York Giants NFL team in 1966.

On the forefront of the avant-garde male modeling scene springing from the 1960's, he worked for over 40 years in the haute-couture trade of London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles. The epitome of charisma and a strapping (6'4", 220 lbs.), handsome guy working with the world's top fashion models, women loved his company and often swooned to the lilt of his 'je ne sais quoi'. Greg liked to admit in a mirthful, self-deprecatory manner, "I dated lots of beautiful women because I was one of the few straight male models who was lucky to come along just when bikini-brief male underwear hit the scene" – 'Gay Cowboy' (not!) indeed! He was boyfriend to both Jean Shrimpton (an icon of Swinging London in the 1960's and one of the first supermodels) and Mandy Rice-Davies (prior to her role in the Profumo UK Governmental Scandal of 1963).

A 'wink and a nod' to you, Greg, there at the Big ON ON In The Sky and Beyond.....!

Greg Herbert — 'A Gentle Giant Of A Man'

"Farewell Old Friend; You'll be sorely missed, yet in the fullness of time, grief will pass, sadness will fade and only fond memories shall endure....."

Heath Norris (Na Hee Man)
September 6, 2015