HAAS, Elmer - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Waynetown- Elmer Haas, 79, retired farmer, died at 12:15 a.m. Friday in the Small Rest Home. He had been ill since Nov. 20 and was in Culver Hospital for 30 days prior to entering the rest home. He was born Dec. 7, 1883, at Newtown, son of Luther and Emma Quiggle Haas. He married Ruth Ellis Mitchell Feb. 22, 1905, at Mellott. She died in 1953. Haas lived most of his life in Fountain and Montgomery counties. He was educated in Fountain County and was a member of the Mellott Congregational Christian Church. Survivors include a son, Austin Haas; a daughter, Mrs. Hildred Smith of near Waynetown; two grandchildren, Barbara Haas Harwood and Larry Smith of Indianapolis; two great-grandsons, and three half-brothers, Walther Haas, Roy Haas and Russell Haas of Veedersburg. Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Servies Funeral Home at Waynetown. Rev. Don Cutts, pastor of the Mellott Congregational Christian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Waynetown Masonic Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Saturday.