Else Haase

Else Haase nee: Fech, 92, of Stevensville, passed away Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at her home surrounded by her family. A service will be held 2:00 P.M. Friday at Starks & Menchinger Chapel, 2650 Niles Rd., St. Joseph, with Rev. Gerald Schroer officiating. Burial will follow at Hickory Bluff Cemetery in Stevensville. Friends may call from 1:00 until 2:00 P.M. Friday at the funeral home. Memorial may be made to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Stevensville, of which she was a member, or Hospice at Home. Those wishing to sign Else’s Memory Book online may do so at www.starks-menchinger.com. Else was born on December 10, 1919 in Michaluvka, Wolhynien to Samuel and Lydia (Gohl) Fech. On October 28, 1950, she married Bruno Haase in Zechin, East Germany. In 1953 they escaped to West Germany and immigrated to America in 1961, settling in Chicago. Else is survived by Bruno, her husband of 61 years; four children, Erhard (Ursula) Kriese of Germany, Erika (Artur-Deceased) Lucius of Stevensville, Gertrud (Detlef) Lang of Arizona, and Doris (Arthur) Glazer of Illinois; eleven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren: Henning (Noura) Kriese and his son Patrick, Bernd (Rebecca) Lucius and their children Brittany and Brandon, Ralph (Kristine) Lucius and their sons Joshua and Dorian, Anita Lang and her daughters Siena and Sophia, Andrew (Christina) Lang and their children Coral and Reef, Debra (Douglas) Baumann, Timothy (Rachel) Lang, Megan, Daniel, Sarah and Jonathan Glazer. She was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband Reinhold, and her siblings-Hulda, Gerhard, Paul, Martha & Reinhold. She was a loving wife and wonderful, caring mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Else was the heart of her family and will be missed dearly by each one of them.