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Paul O. "Cook" Pacini Jr., 80, a technician for the Defense Mapping Agency, died
of cardiac arrest Feb. 16 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. He was a
Montgomery Village resident.
Mr. Pacini served in the Army during the Korean War and joined the Army Map
Service, the precursor to the Defense Mapping Agency. After the war, Mr. Pacini
worked as a civilian technician for the agency, which analyzed the Earth's surface.
It is now part of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. He retired in 1984.
Paul Oliver Pacini Jr., a native of Washington, was the son of Paul Oliver Pacini, a
world champion duckpin bowler in the 1930s. The young Mr. Pacini, whose family
gave him the nickname "Cook" and sometimes "Cookie," graduated in 1948 from
McKinley Technical High School, where he was the MVP of the basketball team
in 1947.
For many years, Mr. Pacini coached youth football, basketball and baseball in
Montgomery and Prince George's counties.
His first wife, the former Jeanne Bauer, died in 1977.
A son from that marriage, Paul O. Pacini III, died in 1999.
Survivors include his wife of 24 years, the former Carol Conaway, of Montgomery
Village; two children from his first marriage, Janice Pacini of Montgomery Village
and Mark Pacini of Berlin, Md.; a sister, Linda Rawlings of Silver Spring; two
grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
-- T. Rees Shapiro