LT Robert A. Hagglund Hagglund

1932 – 2021

USAR

KOR

 

 

 

 

Robert Amory Hagglund was born in Ottawa, Illinois on July 30, 1932, to Elmer and Mary Steinbach Hagglund.

Hagglund graduated from Marquette University in 1954 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, and entered the U.S. Army in December, where he served in Washington, DC for two years during the Korean Conflict.

On February 19, 1955, Hagglund married Gloria Louise Haley in Ottawa, Illinois; they raised five children in the Chicago suburbs.

After his military tour, he went to work for Nuclear-Chicago and progressed through the business, holding virtually every line position there. He became President of 5 companies in the scientific instrument and medical imaging fields: MIL, Nuclear-Chicago, Searle Radio Graphics, Siemens Medical, and EMI Medical - the inventor of Nuclear Medicine CT K Scanner and MRI equipment.

He loved sailing with his wife and friends on Starborne. 

LT Robert Hagglund passed away April 10, 2021 in Inverness, and rests with his wife at Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.

 

 

 

 

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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution