Thomas Wesley Herbst, 87, of Jasper, died Friday, January 8th, 2021. He was born on November 3, 1933, in Caldwell, Texas to Mildred Lawson Herbst and Edgar Frank Herbst.
Tom was a 1956 graduate of the University of Texas where he majored in Chemical Engineering and played saxophone in the Longhorn marching band. He worked for the Ethyl Corporation in Houston before returning to Jasper in 1959 to work for the First State Bank. He returned to school during summers and became an honor graduate of SMUâs Southwest Graduate School of Banking in 1964. Tom took over as President and CEO of the First State Bank of Jasper in 1970 where he remained until his retirement in 1998. When the bank was sold to First Bank & Trust, Tom stayed on as an Advisory Director from 1999-2003.