HERBERT G. JETT

LAMAR-Services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church of Lamar for Herbert G. Jett, 85, Lamar, who died Saturday, June 27, 2015, at Truman Healthcare Center, following a long illness.

Arrangements are under the direction of Daniel Funeral Home.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, at the funeral home.

A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, at Countryside Memorial Gardens in Owensville.

Contributions may be made to First Baptist Church of Lamar, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

On June 5, 2004, he married Emily Sue (Aton) Garrett, who survives him along with one son, Glen A. Jett, Temple, Texas; two stepchildren, Joe Garrett, Bellingham, Wash. and Constance Garrett, Atlanta, Ga.; a sister, Vera Thompson, Bland; two sisters-in-law, Wanda Jett, Bland and Edrie Jett, Creve Coeur; his extra special friends, Steve and Sharon Ramey and many nephews, nieces and cousins.

In addition to his first wife, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Louie Jett and Delmar Jett and an infant sister, Naomi Jett.

Mr. Jett was born Jan. 4, 1930, in Bland, to Victor D. and Bessie (Yoakum) Jett. He graduated from high school in Bland in 1948, where he met and later married Roxy M. Fisher in 1951. She preceded him in death in 2003.

Mr. Jett proudly served his country from 1950 to 1953 as a sergeant major in the Air Training Command of the U.S. Air Force, during the Korean War. After the war he worked in his hometown bank and started and owned an insurance company. He later moved to St. Louis, where he attended the American Institute of Banking and worked in banks in St. Louis. In 1960, he was offered the opportunity to move to Owensville, where a new bank was to be built and he would become an executive of the bank and assume ownership of an existing insurance company. In 1964, he moved to Lamar, where he was named president and board member of Barton County State Bank. In 1965, he was appointed a director of Central Mortgage BancShares, Inc., a holding company consisting of six Missouri banks and a mortgage company in Springfield. In 1976 he moved to Lee's Summit, where he was named president, chairman of the board and trust officer of Boatmen's Bank. After 15 years he retired and returned to Lamar in 1992, ending a 39 year career in the field of banking. He was honored several times during his banking career, but the one he favored most was in 1971 when the Federal Reserve featured him in their magazine Images as one of Missouri's outstanding bankers.

Mr. Jett was also a member of several organizations, too numerous to mention. He was an ordained deacon of the Southern Baptist faith for over 50 years and a Sunday school teacher at First Baptist Church of Lamar.