Born in Staten Island, Mr. Sackett was educated there. He was a veteran of the First World war and in 1921 came to Penn Yan as stenographer at the office of W. H. Fox & Son, paper mills.
Later he became bookkeeper and general office man, a postion which he filled until 1939. Ill health caused him to give up his work and go South.
In May, 1936, he was badly injured in an auto crash on the Canandaigua-Rochester highway His wife and six-year-old son were killed in this accident. Since that time, he had spent the winters In the South.
He was survived by his father, Edward Sackett of Caledonla; two brothers, Walter of Chicago and Lawrence of Caledonla.
Born in Staten Island, Mr. Sackett was educated there. He was a veteran of the First World war and in 1921 came to Penn Yan as stenographer at the office of W. H. Fox & Son, paper mills.
Later he became bookkeeper and general office man, a postion which he filled until 1939. Ill health caused him to give up his work and go South.
In May, 1936, he was badly injured in an auto crash on the Canandaigua-Rochester highway His wife and six-year-old son were killed in this accident. Since that time, he had spent the winters In the South.
He was survived by his father, Edward Sackett of Caledonla; two brothers, Walter of Chicago and Lawrence of Caledonla.
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