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Mr. Victor C. Hackett, a retired civil servant and long time San Antonio businessman died on Saturday, February 4, 2006. Born in Kenedy, Texas on March 25, 1922 he was raised in Corpus Christi and Victoria, Texas where he attended local public schools.
He was the son of Sylvester Dock Hackett and Leona T. Holland – Hackett and was one of twelve children. He enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas and served during World War II in the South Pacific as a clerk typist. Following his honorable discharge from the Army, Mr. Hackett returned to Texas where he met and married Bobbie Lee Foster of Victoria, Texas who preceded him in death.
He briefly resided and attended technical schools in Kansas City, Missouri and Detroit, Michigan before moving to San Antonio. Mr. Hackett also studied briefly at Prairie View A&M College. In San Antonio, Mr. Hackett began his civil service career as a sheet metal worker serving at Randolph Air Force Base and retiring from Kelly Air Force Base. During this period he began an Apartment Rental business which successfully grew into multiple rental units on the Eastside of San Antonio.
Mr. Hackett was a life-member of the Disabled American Veterans and was a long time member of the New Hope Baptist Church.
Mr. Hackett is survived by two daughters, Doris Marie Hackett and Roslyn Kay Hackett of San Antonio, Texas; two sons, Victor Carlyle Hackett, Jr. and his wife, Linda J. Hackett of Marlton, New Jersey; David Alan Hackett and his wife, Rhonda Hackett of Houston, Texas; his four grandchildren, Rashaun E. Reid and her husband, Octavius T. Reid, III of Cherry Hill, New Jersey; Victor Carlyle Hackett, III of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Joey Stiano-Hackett, Christopher Stiano-Hackett, Chloe Octavia Reid and Morgan Reid of Cherry Hill, New Jersey; sisters-in-law, Doris Marie Griffin of Corpus Christi, Texas, Alberta Hackett of San Antonio, Texas; Rose Mary Hackett of San Antonio, Texas and Yvonne Hackett of Detroit, Michigan; one brother-in-law, Wallace Foster of Sacramento, California; and a host of nieces and nephews.
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