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George Reed Hacking, 1903–1977 (aged 73 years)

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George Reed Hacking

Name: George Reed /Hacking/
Given names: George Reed
Surname: Hacking

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father	Links Birth: 5 April 1876 40 37 — Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, USA Marriage: 16 June 1900 — Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA Death: 13 November 1955 — Cardston, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Frances Harriet Briggs Edith Hacking George Reed Hacking Samuel Grant Hacking Ernest Roy Hacking Joseph Hacking Ezra Earl Hacking Lexie Hacking Wayne Briggs Hacking Hazel Elizabeth Hacking Dorothy Hacking George Aldred Hacking 1876–1955 Birth: 5 April 1876 40 37 — Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, USA Death: 13 November 1955 — Cardston, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
mother	Links Birth: 10 July 1878 — Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA Marriage: 16 June 1900 — Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA Death: 2 April 1964 — Glenwood, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse George Aldred Hacking Edith Hacking George Reed Hacking Samuel Grant Hacking Ernest Roy Hacking Joseph Hacking Ezra Earl Hacking Lexie Hacking Wayne Briggs Hacking Hazel Elizabeth Hacking Dorothy Hacking Frances Harriet Briggs 1878–1964 Birth: 10 July 1878 — Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA Death: 2 April 1964 — Glenwood, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Marriage	Marriage — 16 June 1900 — Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA
18 months elder sister	Links Birth: 24 November 1901 25 23 — Lehi, Utah, USA Marriage: 29 March 1929 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Death: 14 December 1985 — Bountiful, Davis, Utah, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Vaughn Peter Sheffield Chester Grant Sheffield Dean Hacking Sheffield Larry Hacking Sheffield Edith Hacking 1901–1985 Birth: 24 November 1901 25 23 — Lehi, Utah, USA Death: 14 December 1985 — Bountiful, Davis, Utah, USA
2 years himself	Links Birth: 9 November 1903 27 25 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Marriage: 18 December 1930 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Death: 8 January 1977 — Fort Lauderdale, Broward, Florida, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Melda Severina Farley Christine Hacking George Reed Hacking 1903–1977 Birth: 9 November 1903 27 25 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 8 January 1977 — Fort Lauderdale, Broward, Florida, USA
4 years younger brother	Links Birth: 10 August 1907 31 29 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 20 November 1907 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Samuel Grant Hacking 1907–1907 Birth: 10 August 1907 31 29 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 20 November 1907 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
13 months younger brother	Links Birth: 13 September 1908 32 30 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 13 September 1908 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Ernest Roy Hacking 1908–1908 Birth: 13 September 1908 32 30 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 13 September 1908 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
11 months younger brother	Links Birth: 22 August 1909 33 31 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 22 August 1909 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Joseph Hacking 1909–1909 Birth: 22 August 1909 33 31 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 22 August 1909 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
2 years younger brother	Links Birth: 1 August 1911 35 33 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Marriage: 2 January 1929 — Calgary, Calgary Metropolitan Region, Alberta, Canada Death: 17 November 1987 — Calgary, Calgary Metropolitan Region, Alberta, Canada Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Bessie Juliet Jensen Bonnie Jean Hacking Donald Earl Hacking Joan Edna Hacking Julie Hacking Ezra Earl Hacking 1911–1987 Birth: 1 August 1911 35 33 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 17 November 1987 — Calgary, Calgary Metropolitan Region, Alberta, Canada
14 months younger sister	Links Birth: 16 September 1912 36 34 — Medicine Hat, Cypress County, Alberta, Canada Marriage: 26 July 1933 — Cardston, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 27 August 1961 — Cardston, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Kenneth Gentry Wood Kenneth Grant Wood Brent Hacking Wood Lexie Hacking 1912–1961 Birth: 16 September 1912 36 34 — Medicine Hat, Cypress County, Alberta, Canada Death: 27 August 1961 — Cardston, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
16 months younger brother	Links Birth: 13 January 1914 37 35 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Marriage: 9 July 1936 — Cardston, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 24 December 1999 — Orem, Utah, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Lilly Mae Lybbert Lonnie Ladean Hacking Paul Jeffrey Hacking Wayne Briggs Hacking 1914–1999 Birth: 13 January 1914 37 35 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 24 December 1999 — Orem, Utah, USA
21 months younger sister	Links Birth: 1 October 1915 39 37 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Marriage: 23 October 1935 — Cardston, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 15 June 2001 — Cardston, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Dale Duce Woolf Clark Hacking Woolf Waldo Kent Woolf Robert Burke Woolf Hazel Elizabeth Hacking 1915–2001 Birth: 1 October 1915 39 37 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 15 June 2001 — Cardston, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
4 years younger sister	Links Birth: 2 December 1919 43 41 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Marriage: 14 February 1941 — Cardston, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 8 March 1997 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Thaine Clarence Smith Rodney Dexter Smith Dorothy Hacking 1919–1997 Birth: 2 December 1919 43 41 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 8 March 1997 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada

Family with Melda Severina Farley
himself	Links Birth: 9 November 1903 27 25 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Marriage: 18 December 1930 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Death: 8 January 1977 — Fort Lauderdale, Broward, Florida, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Melda Severina Farley Christine Hacking George Reed Hacking 1903–1977 Birth: 9 November 1903 27 25 — Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada Death: 8 January 1977 — Fort Lauderdale, Broward, Florida, USA
wife	Links Birth: 14 October 1907 — Provo, Utah, USA Marriage: 18 December 1930 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Death: 9 December 1997 — Orem, Utah, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse George Reed Hacking Christine Hacking Melda Severina Farley 1907–1997 Birth: 14 October 1907 — Provo, Utah, USA Death: 9 December 1997 — Orem, Utah, USA
Marriage	Marriage — 18 December 1930 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
14 years daughter	Links Birth: 16 March 1945 41 37 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Marriage: 13 February 1965 — Orem, Utah, USA Death: 5 October 1988 — Provo, Utah, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse William Steven Hayes Christine Hacking 1945–1988 Birth: 16 March 1945 41 37 — Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Death: 5 October 1988 — Provo, Utah, USA

Events of close relatives
Birth	9 November 1903 27 25 Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Birth of a brother	Samuel Grant Hacking 10 August 1907 Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Death of a brother	Samuel Grant Hacking 20 November 1907 Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Birth of a brother	Ernest Roy Hacking 13 September 1908 Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Death of a brother	Ernest Roy Hacking 13 September 1908 Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Birth of a brother	Joseph Hacking 22 August 1909 Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Death of a brother	Joseph Hacking 22 August 1909 Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Birth of a brother	Ezra Earl Hacking 1 August 1911 Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Birth of a sister	Lexie Hacking 16 September 1912 Medicine Hat, Cypress County, Alberta, Canada
Death of a paternal grandmother	Jane Clarke 3 March 1913 Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, USA
Burial of a paternal grandmother	Jane Clarke 7 March 1913
Birth of a brother	Wayne Briggs Hacking 13 January 1914 Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Birth of a sister	Hazel Elizabeth Hacking 1 October 1915 Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Death of a paternal grandfather	John Sampson Hacking 27 July 1917 Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, USA
Burial of a paternal grandfather	John Sampson Hacking 31 July 1917 Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, USA
Birth of a sister	Dorothy Hacking 2 December 1919 Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Marriage	Melda Severina Farley — View this family 18 December 1930 (aged 27 years) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Birth of a daughter	Christine Hacking 16 March 1945 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Death of a father	George Aldred Hacking 13 November 1955 Cardston, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Death of a sister	Lexie Hacking 27 August 1961 Cardston, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Death of a mother	Frances Harriet Briggs 2 April 1964 Glenwood, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada
Marriage of a daughter	William Steven Hayes — Christine Hacking — View this family 13 February 1965 Orem, Utah, USA
Death	8 January 1977 (aged 73 years) Fort Lauderdale, Broward, Florida, USA
Last change	1 July 2022 – 12:33:11 Author of last change: Danny

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Note	OREM MAN RETIRING FROM POSTAL WORK Reed Hacking is retiring this week from 36 years of government service, including 28 of them in the Orem Post Office. He was born in Magrath, Alberta, Canada to George A. and Frances Briggs Hacking. He attended school there, obtaining a teaching cerificate from Normal School in Calgary and teaching elementary school for two years in Magrath. He served an LDS Mexican Mission for 36 months, after which he moved to the United States and worked as a salesman for the Utah Woolen Mills. He married the former Melda Farley and they have a daughter Christine. She is the wife of Lt. William Steven Hayes, who is currently serving in the Navy Air Department. They have a little son, Daren, who is certainly the "apple of his grandpa's eye." "Retirement is something that all workers look forward to--usually with anticipation," says Mr. Hacking. "I graduated from Brigham Young University in 1935 while holding down a full-time job at Bradshaw Auto Parts as inventory stock manager and clerk. My major was Spanish. Dr. Cummings, head of the Departments asked me to teach an advanced Spanish class at the "Y." He told me I would get free tuition toward a master's degree. I taught the Spanish class for almost two years while I was working toward an accounting degree, as that interested me more than Spanish. "While taking a statistical class from Professor William Boyle. I learned from him of a civil service examination which was coming up for an 'Assistant Statistical Clerk," "That had a good ring to it and a government job sounded like a secure position. I took the exam with about 45 others in the Provo High School, along with about 200,000 in the rest of the United States. "An offer came to report at "Hole-In-The-Rock" in Arizona to work with the Soil Conservation Service. It was quite a decision to pull up roots where I was and go to a strange state and environment. The starting salary was $1,440 per annum, which was considered a fair wage in those days. Mr. Hacking worked in various positions with SCS and other government agencies, served in the Air Force during World War II and in July, 1944 received a job in the Provo Post Office as a mail carrier. He had a bicycle route, which he sayd was an enjoyable experience." When the Orem Post Office opened up, he was transferred there. "I opened up the new Post Office at 4 a.m. on its first day of business and have been reporting to work at that hour ever since. "The government has a great many postitions for those who pass the examination. I passed 20 or 25, ranging from warehouse clerk to deputy zone collector (Internal Revenue), to bank examiner. "I have two suggestions to those who are starting in a government career. First -- Prepare yourself in a technical field. My first position was a clerical job and I made about a third less than a soil analyst and other technicians who spent no more time in school than I did. "Second -- don't buy a house until you are satisfied with the location of your job. In other words, get the job you wish, and then buy a house; otherwise your house may tie you down to a position that won't allow the fullest use of your capacities. Mr. Hacking doesn't have to spend much time in a rocking chair, but will continue with his CPA and accounting work, his church assignments and pursuing his hobbies of golfing and traveling, along with his philatelist interests. His wife who retired from Alpine School District last spring has a few things in mind for him also. George Reed Hacking, 73, died while serving a Fort Lauderdale. Florida Spanish Mission. Born November 9, 1903, in Magrath, Canada, to George A. amd Frances Briggs Hacking. Married Melde Farley, December 18, 1930 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Retired U. S. Postal Service clerk and a CPA. Also served a Spanish American Mission. Survivors: wife of Orem; one daughter, Mrs. Christine Hacking Hayes, one son-in-law: LCD William Steve Hayes; one grandson, Daren S. Hayes, all of Cubl Naval Air Station, Manilla, Philippines; two brothers and three sisters: Earl Hacking, Dorothy Smith, Beth Woolfe, all of Canada; Wayne Hacking, of Orem; Edith Sheffield, Kaysville. Services will be Thursday 11 a.m., Orem 19th Ward, 1035 South 800 East. Friends may call at the Sundberg Olpin Mortuary in Orem Wednesday 6-8 p.m. and at the chapel prior to service. Burial in the Orem City Cemetery.

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OREM MAN RETIRING FROM POSTAL WORK

Reed Hacking is retiring this week from 36 years of government service, including 28 of them in the Orem Post Office.

He was born in Magrath, Alberta, Canada to George A. and Frances Briggs Hacking. He attended school there, obtaining a teaching cerificate from Normal School in Calgary and teaching elementary school for two years in Magrath.

He served an LDS Mexican Mission for 36 months, after which he moved to the United States and worked as a salesman for the Utah Woolen Mills.

He married the former Melda Farley and they have a daughter Christine. She is the wife of Lt. William Steven Hayes, who is currently serving in the Navy Air Department. They have a little son, Daren, who is certainly the "apple of his grandpa's eye."

"Retirement is something that all workers look forward to--usually with anticipation," says Mr. Hacking. "I graduated from Brigham Young University in 1935 while holding down a full-time job at Bradshaw Auto Parts as inventory stock manager and clerk. My major was Spanish. Dr. Cummings, head of the Departments asked me to teach an advanced Spanish class at the "Y." He told me I would get free tuition toward a master's degree. I taught the Spanish class for almost two years while I was working toward an accounting degree, as that interested me more than Spanish.

"While taking a statistical class from Professor William Boyle. I learned from him of a civil service examination which was coming up for an 'Assistant Statistical Clerk,"

"That had a good ring to it and a government job sounded like a secure position. I took the exam with about 45 others in the Provo High School, along with about 200,000 in the rest of the United States.

"An offer came to report at "Hole-In-The-Rock" in Arizona to work with the Soil Conservation Service. It was quite a decision to pull up roots where I was and go to a strange state and environment. The starting salary was $1,440 per annum, which was considered a fair wage in those days.

Mr. Hacking worked in various positions with SCS and other government agencies, served in the Air Force during World War II and in July, 1944 received a job in the Provo Post Office as a mail carrier. He had a bicycle route, which he sayd was an enjoyable experience."

When the Orem Post Office opened up, he was transferred there. "I opened up the new Post Office at 4 a.m. on its first day of business and have been reporting to work at that hour ever since.

"The government has a great many postitions for those who pass the examination. I passed 20 or 25, ranging from warehouse clerk to deputy zone collector (Internal Revenue), to bank examiner.

"I have two suggestions to those who are starting in a government career. First -- Prepare yourself in a technical field. My first position was a clerical job and I made about a third less than a soil analyst and other technicians who spent no more time in school than I did.

"Second -- don't buy a house until you are satisfied with the location of your job. In other words, get the job you wish, and then buy a house; otherwise your house may tie you down to a position that won't allow the fullest use of your capacities.

Mr. Hacking doesn't have to spend much time in a rocking chair, but will continue with his CPA and accounting work, his church assignments and pursuing his hobbies of golfing and traveling, along with his philatelist interests. His wife who retired from Alpine School District last spring has a few things in mind for him also.

George Reed Hacking, 73, died while serving a Fort Lauderdale. Florida Spanish Mission.

Born November 9, 1903, in Magrath, Canada, to George A. amd Frances Briggs Hacking. Married Melde Farley, December 18, 1930 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Retired U. S. Postal Service clerk and a CPA. Also served a Spanish American Mission.

Survivors: wife of Orem; one daughter, Mrs. Christine Hacking Hayes, one son-in-law: LCD William Steve Hayes; one grandson, Daren S. Hayes, all of Cubl Naval Air Station, Manilla, Philippines; two brothers and three sisters: Earl Hacking, Dorothy Smith, Beth Woolfe, all of Canada; Wayne Hacking, of Orem; Edith Sheffield, Kaysville.

Services will be Thursday 11 a.m., Orem 19th Ward, 1035 South 800 East. Friends may call at the Sundberg Olpin Mortuary in Orem Wednesday 6-8 p.m. and at the chapel prior to service. Burial in the Orem City Cemetery.

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