Early Life and Family
Hickey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to William T. Hickey, a funeral director and embalmer, and Margaret (Kedian) Hickey. He was a graduate of the Cambridge Public School system. Hickey's father established the William T. Hickey Funeral Home in Cambridge in 1934. In 1959, he graduated from the New England Institute of Embalming and Funeral Directing and joined his father in a family business, the William T. Hickey & Son Funeral Home at 175 Huron Avenue in Cambridge.
In 1951 at the young age of thirteen he met a Cambridge City Councillor by the name of Edward J. "Eddie" Sullivan. Through this friendship he became interested in a life of public service. He watched his friend go from City Councillor to Mayor of Cambridge and go on to become Clerk of Courts for Middlesex County in Massachusetts.
On June 4, 1960, Hickey married Patricia Eileen Hughes at St. Peter's Church in Cambridge. They have three daughters, Sheila, Margaret and Patricia, and currently have five grandchildren, Timothy, Abigail, Meaghan, Colin and Liam.
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