William Cary Hackney

WILLIAM CARY HACKNEY, AGED 78, WAS BORN IN ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA

SEPTEMBER 23RD, 1946 TO RALPH WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH (BETTY) (ARNER) HACKNEY.

BILL WAS THE CLOSEST THING TO A WYOMING NATIVE THAT MOST WILL EVER SEE.

BILL WOULD TELL THE STORY OF HOW HIS GRANDFATHER WOULD SAY THAT HIS CHILD, AND ONLY DAUGHTER WAS “NOT GOING TO HAVE HER FIRST BABY IN THE WILDS OF WYOMING”…BUT WAS GOING BACK TO NEBRASKA, TO THE OLD FAMILY DOCTOR!!!

BILL WOULD ADD HIS OPINION TO THIS STORY… (IMAGINE THAT!), AND SAY THAT HE WAS CONCEIVED IN WYOMING, AND RAISED IN WYOMING, AND THAT IS WHAT COUNTS!!

BILL GRADUATED FROM BLACK HILLS STATE COLLEGE WITH A TEACHING AND MATH DEGREE; HOWEVER, AFTER READING AN ARTICLE IN TIME MAGAZINE THAT COMPUTERS WOULD BE THE WAY OF THE FUTURE, HE ATTENDED COMPUTER SCHOOL IN MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA, AND RECEIVED A DEGREE IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, WHERE HE WORKED UNTIL RETIRING. THESE WORK YEARS INCLUDED BEING A PROGRAMMING ANALYST III, AND WORKING TO WRITE PROGRAMS FOR THE WYOMING STATE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS PROGRAMS AS A PROGRAMMING ANALYST II.

HE MARRIED JAMIE KATHERINE BARRITT ON MAY 27TH, 1972 AT FAITH ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH IN CASPER WYOMING.

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