Herbert Haas

Service for Dr. Herbert Frank Haas, 92 of Tyler will be held at 2pm on Saturday, February 3, 2007 at Stewart Family Funeral Home's Chapel with Rev. Mark Braaten officiating. Dr. Herbert Frank Haas, born April 4, 1914 in Kansas City, Kansas, died January 30, 2007 in Tyler, Texas, following a brief illness. He was preceded in death in 1998 by his wife of 62 years, Oma Ellen Smith, who he married on December 19, 1936. He was a humble and quiet man of great compassion, a curious mind, and quick wit, who led his life with dignity and honor. Dr. Haas had an inauspicious beginning to his schooling, having to repeat first grade at Franklin Grade School as a result of playing too much hooky with a truant cousin. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in Microbiology at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas and was a member of Sigma Xi, the international honor society of science and engineering. After working for Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California for a year, he and his family returned to Kansas City where he worked for the Jensen Salisbury Laboratory developing numerous animal vaccines until his retirement in 1979. He loved travel, nature and driving, and took his young family on numerous car trip adventures throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico. During his career and after retirement, he and Oma enjoyed a number of travels overseas. He pursued his love of the outdoors by continuing to tend his six-acre yard into his mid-80s. In 2001 he moved to Florida to be with his sweetheart, Marge Kimbrell. He spent four years there indulging his scientific curiosity by studying the local alligator population and hurricanes before moving to Tyler in 2005. Herb is survived by his son, Dr. Charles D. Haas and wife Barbara, of Tyler, Texas, his two daughters, M. Susan Haas of Manhattan, Kansas and Paula K. Binder of Overland Park, Kansas, nine grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and his loving companion for the last seven years, Marge Kimbrell of Tyler, Texas. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be given to the charity of your choice. For more information or to express condolences, visit www.stewartfamilyfuneral.com.

Herbert Haas

April 4, 1914 - January 30, 2007