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Colleagues, Family Mourn Reese Haggott

Torrance, Calif. – Family members
and business colleagues got together over the weekend to celebrate the life and
accomplishments of Reese Haggott, a key leader in building the mobile electronics
aftermarket.

Haggott, who
passed away Oct. 30 from pancreatic cancer, was employed at Alpine Electronics
during the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s and rose to become sales and
marketing VP, where he became known for building
a nationwide network of Alpine specialty retailers who numbered about 600 at
the time.

 Ray Windsor,
who worked with Haggott at Eclipse after Haggott left Alpine, organized the
event and called Haggott “a truly innovative and uncommon man.” Haggott,
he said, “played a big role in a lot of our industry’s most successful
retailers from his days at Hi-Gain, Pioneer, Alpine, Blaupunkt, Eclipse,
Coustic, etc.”

Although no one made a public speech, Windsor
said, business colleagues talked about Haggott’s impact on the 12-volt industry
and how he helped them personally. “It seemed as if the group was collectively
hoping that if each of us as individuals could have just a small fraction of
the positive impact on lives and business that Reese Haggott did, we would be
very proud,” Windsor said.

  Although Haggott requested that “no one
mourn” his passing, Windsor said “anyone interested in memorializing a thought
or memory of Reese” could send an email to Lori Jenkins, Haggott’s former wife
of 17 years and “friend at his passing.” Jenkins said she would pass on any
comments sent to

[email protected]

to Haggott’s children to create a keepsake.

 During the gathering, Dave Black quoted a “Reese’ism,”
Windsor said: “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”

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