Attorney nurtured a passion for the arts
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Bill Hackney left a prominent college to pilot a Curtis C-46, a large cargo and transport plane that followed the American military from island to island across the Pacific during World War II. “Dad was 20 and an undergraduate at Princeton University when he entered the service,” said his son, Penn Hackney, an attorney and federal public defender. William P. Hackney, of Shadyside, a retired senior partner at the law firm of Reed Smith Shaw & McClay, died Monday, July 31, 2006, at his home. He was 82. Born and raised in Uniontown, Fayette County, William Hackney was one of three sons in the family of Henry Eastman and Elizabeth Pendleton Hackney. |