William “Bill” Michael Haggerty, 67, passed away on the morning of August 14, 2016 of natural causes at his home in Summerfield, FL, surrounded by family and friends. Bill was born in Methuen, MA on January 29, 1949, the only child of the late Frank A. Haggerty and the late Mary (Topping) Haggerty of Salisbury, MA. He grew up in Salisbury and graduated first in his class from Governor Dummer Academy, now known as The Governor’s Academy, a highly selective, co-educational, independent boarding preparatory school, in 1967. He then went on to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a BS in Political Science in 1971. Bill also attended the Boston College of Law. Bill started his career working at the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), as a Bank Examiner, from 1973-1980. He loved to tell stories about his tenure with the OCC, especially some of the shenanigans that he and fellow bank examiners pulled. He then went into the banking industry, specializing in Precious Metals. In 2009, he and longtime friend and business colleague, John Sylvestri, opened Material Sampling Technologies (MST). They eventually sold the company to Precious LKQ Metals, where he worked until 2012, when he retired. Bill then moved to Florida, as he was tired of the New England winters. Family was vitally important to Bill. During their growing-up years, being actively involved with his son Michael Haggerty and Erin (Haggerty) Capuzzo brought him much pride and joy. He loved to recall the antics of their everyday lives, oft times taking great pleasure reminding them of things that occurred; scouting, baseball, camping, father/daughter dances, a peanut butter sandwich that got “played” in a VCR, a dollar bill stuffed into a Sake decanter (which no one has been able to retrieve since), just to name a few. He is survived by his wife, Lynn Haggerty of Summerfield, FL; son, Michael F. Haggerty and his wife, Nicole (Drape) Haggerty, of Attleboro, MA; daughter, Erin (Haggerty) Capuzzo and her husband, Joseph Capuzzo, of Woonsocket, RI; stepson, Brett Wheeling and his wife, Stephanie (Jenkins) Wheeling of Kuna, ID; granddaughters, Caylee Jamnik and Alison Capuzzo of Woonsocket, RI; and step-grandsons, Hal Wheeling of Kuna, ID, and Joey Capuzzo of Millis, MA. Friends and family are cordially invited to attend a Memorial Visitation on Thursday, September 1, 2016 from 5 – 7 p.m. in the “Memorial Chapel” of the Dyer-Lake Funeral Home – the national historic Colonel Obed Robinson Home, 161 Commonwealth Avenue (exit 5 off I-95 N or S, go right at end of ramp, ¾ mile on the left) Village of Attleboro Falls, North Attleboro. Children’s room is available during visitation and the funeral service. A Memorial Service was held in Bill’s honor for his Florida friends and family on August 18, 2016 in Oxford, Florida. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Bill’s memory to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, of which Bill was a lifetime member, at: 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2126 or on-line at www.ushmm.org.
