Herman “Herm” Walter Flomdich, (pronounced FLOM-ditch) was born on December 30, 1933, in Detroit, Michigan, moved to Wheeling, West Virginia at age two, and because of his father Raymond’s jobs as both a Fuller Brush™ salesman, and an insurance agent for American General Life Insurance Co.®, both “door to door” “cold call” sales jobs, lived all over the Tri-State area throughout West Virginia, Pennsylvania, in Moon, Cranberry, and New Castle, in Ohio, in Akron, Youngstown, Miami, Steubenville, Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, always in rent houses, and attended numerous Catholic schools, graduating from St. Xavier on W. North Bend Road, seven and a half miles north of the Ohio River, where he would go down to on the north bank and watch the boats and barges go by, waving, and sometime
