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Notes for Robert Charles HACKETT
Robert Charles Hackett, 82, of Wayne, a decorated World War II veteran who later sold goods to military commissaries and taught tennis, died of cancer Friday at Bryn Mawr Terrace.
Mr. Hackett grew up in Overbrook and graduated from Lower Merion High School, where he played on the football team and was a member of the state championship basketball team. His son Robert said his father enthusiastically followed the basketball career of another Lower Merion graduate, Kobe Bryant.
During World War II he served in the Army in Europe with the 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment in campaigns in Italy and France. He parachuted behind the front lines in Germany in 1944 to secure a highway and railroad lines. Mr. Hackett was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star medal.
He also served in the Army during the Korean War as an athletic instructor at Fort Campbell in Kentucky.
In the 1950s Mr. Hackett was a sales representative for a military brokerage company that supplied military commissaries. He started his own brokerage company, Sales Service Inc., in 1959, and in 1966 started another brokerage company, Trinity Marketing Corp., in Devon.
After retiring in 1982, Mr. Hackett, a lifelong tennis player, began tennis clinics in Cincinnati, Washington, and then in Edisto Beach, S.C.
In addition to his son, he is survived by his wife of 18 years, Laurel Girardin Hackett; daughters Connie Hiott, Kristen and Robin; sons Andrew, Donald and Harry; a brother; 10 grandchildren; and his former wife, Jean Roach Hackett.
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