Hack was born to S. V. “SV” and Ara Lee (Clayton) Hackworth on March 26, 1919, in Valliant, Oklahoma, and died Thursday, February 7, 2008, at St. Mary’s.

Hack grew up in Valliant where attended grade school and junior high school. He rode his pony “Joker” all over the Red River Valley with his Choctaw hunting and fishing buddies. His family moved to Stillwater in 1935 where he attended Stillwater High School. He lettered in track, basketball, and football. As the Football Team Captain he led them to state championships in 1938 and 1939. He then attended Southeastern College at Durant, Oklahoma where he met and married on 23 January, 1942 his lifetime love Mildred Drucilla Reed. Hack joined the US Army Medical Corps in July, 1942 and first served as a Combat Medic during the landings on Kishka to retake the US Aleutian Islands. He was then retrained as a Surgical Assistant for an Army Surgical Hospital: ASH (later during the Korean War renamed Mobile Army Surgical Hospital: MASH) and assigned to the 30^th Field Hospital for the Normandy Invasion. He hit Omaha Beach and supported General Patton’s Third Army across France, Luxembourg, Germany, and Austria. He treated many casualties from most of the major battles to include the Battle of the Bulge. As the war ended in Europe his unit helped clean up and treat the pitifully surviving prisoners from a liberated Nazi Concentration Camp in Austria.

After his discharge from the US Army in 1945, he started working at a Maytag Appliance Store near Pauls Valley, Oklahoma where he learned to play golf on sunny days with the store owner. After several other jobs during the 1950s to include Salesman for Shawnee Feeds, Shawnee Oklahoma, roughneck on the various Oklahoma oil fields, and route milkman for the Meadow Gold Dairy in Oklahoma City, he was hired as a photographer by Marques Studio and moved to Enid, Oklahoma. He worked for them until starting his own Monarch Studio in Enid. He sold his business in the late 1970s and retired with his loving wife Drucilla to the leisurely life of travel trailering across the USA and Canada.

Hack was forever an athlete and during the late 1940s and early 1950s played City Baseball for Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. He once caught a fly ball in the outfield using just his hat. Hack’s main sports passion however was the game of golf, where he spent over fifty years playing all over the United States. During his golfing prime in the mid-1980s, he made FOUR holes-in-one! Hack was a Mason for over sixty-five years. Hack will also be remembered by his many friends who will sorely miss his quick humor and witty comments.

He is survived by his wife Drucilla; son, Lieutenant Colonel S. L. Hackworth and his wife Shirley of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, son Robert Reed Hackworth of Tahlequah, Oklahoma; and daughter Linda Drucilla Snow of Fairview, Oklahoma. Hack is also lovingly remembered by his nine grandchildren, his nine great-grandchildren, and his many friends.

Hack was preceded in death by his Brother Paul, Brother Ralph, and Sister Mary Jo.