Dr. Thomas Hackett

Dr. Thomas R. P. Hackett, husband to the late Maureen Hackett, died peacefully in his Newfield's home on Monday, April 28, 2014. He was born in Palestine in 1931 where he spent most of his childhood with his parents and his sister Sheila. During World War II, he went to Ireland to attend school and graduated from University College Cork after studying medicine. While in Cork, he met his future wife Maureen and they were married on June 11, 1960. They emigrated to the United States and both cherished their US citizenship. He ran the Radiology Department at Exeter Hospital and was the Chief of Medical Staff. He was a pioneer in the use of ultrasound and mammography for the detection of breast cancer and was instrumental in bringing the first CAT Scanning machine into the State of New Hampshire. Dr. Hackett had a life-long love for adventure having traveled to the world's more interesting places. He was an avid yachtsman and sailed several of the Seven Seas. He was an accomplished aviator and flew planes and helicopters. He was a consummate intellectual with a scientific mind; he was extraordinarily well read and loved nothing more than a lively debate with friends over a chilled manhattan. He was a renaissance man in the truest sense of the word. Kind. Generous. Inquisitive. Pleasantly provocative. Dr. Hackett is survived by his son Thomas and his wife Kim, by his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Anthony and his grandchildren: Nandi, Joshua, Madison, Kaleha, Imali Summer, Logan and Zhara Kadi. Calling hours will be on Friday, May 2nd, from 4-7PM at the Brewitt Funeral Home, 14 Pine Street, Exeter. A Mass of Christian burial will be on Saturday, May 3rd at St. Mary's Church on Main Street in Newmarket at 11 AM. Burial will follow in the Locust Grove Cemetery in Newfields. In lieu of flowers, kindly consider donating to The Paul Memorial Library, PO Box 200, Newfields, NH 03856. Additionally, he specifically urges us all to take the Second Amendment as seriously as he did.