Bert Lloyd Humphries

Bert Lloyd Humphries passed away peacefully on August 2, 2019. He was born to Louis Ellis Humphries and Daisy Christensen in Southern California on October 11, 1928. He joined his older brother Ellis and sister Ruth. His younger siblings Beth and Boyd followed soon after.

To help his dad and family make ends meet he would deliver and sell coal to neighbors before he went to school. This started a life of a strong work ethic, that he passed on to his children and grandchildren. After attending Granite High School in Salt Lake City, Utah Bert joined the Army near the end of World War II and served in the occupation of Japan, then four years as a Navy Reservist.

Bert and his brother Ellis started Humphries Steam Cleaning & Undercoating business and later he started AAGlass Inc., where he worked with all three of his children. He loved to go to work so he could be around his family.

On June 7, 1956 he married Patricia Thomas and spent the next sixty-three years with her by his side. Bert loved to travel, whether by air visiting many wonderful locations around the world, or in his motorhome with friends from the RV club he belonged to. Bert and Pat spent many years traveling the western states with their boys watching them snatch up nearly every ribbon and trophy in their events while showing their prize-winning horses with the AQHA.

Bert loved to exercise, which was a good thing because he loved to eat. The Sizzler or Chuck a Rama were favorites of his. Bert was very active even up to his later years. Many days he would be at the Deseret Gym and later at the Sports Mall where he would often be waiting for them to open the doors so he could work out.

One of the things Bert enjoyed most was his cabin, “in the Upper Weber”. He worked hard building cabin and maintaining the property over the years including gathering all the rocks for his much-loved chimney along the road leading to the cabin and frequent changing of the sprinklers. There have been years of fun times making memories with family and friends.

He is survived and will be much missed by his wife Pat, and children, Kathy – from a previous marriage –(Dave) Harris, Mike (Sheri) Humphries, Mark (Maren) Humphries, 7 grandchildren and 4 Greatgrandchildren and many nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his parents and all siblings.