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Mary Evangeline Haas (Wold)

January 22, 1931 — November 22, 2016

Mary Evangeline Wold Haas   Obit and Eulogy

 

Mary Evangeline Wold Haas, mom, was born January 22, 1931 in International Falls, Minnesota. Mary Evangeline Wold Haas died from Alzheimer’s in Ridgeway, Colorado in her bed on Tuesday November 22, 2016.  She was 85 years old.   Mom will be buried at the Medina Country Church north of Cleveland, North Dakota. Mom lived out her life in Bemidji and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Lincoln, Nebraska.  In North Dakota, Mary Evangeline lived in Jamestown, Streeter, Max, and Carrington.  For a few years in Des Moines, Iowa and then on to Santa Maria and San Jose in California.  In South Dakota, she lived in Pierre.  Other places of residence included Gladstone and Portland, Oregon and College Place, Washington.  At the close of her life she lived in Silver Springs, Maryland and Ridgeway, Colorado.

Mom attended and graduated from Maple Wood Academy Hutchinson, Minnesota graduating at the age of 14 in 1945.  She also attended Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska finishing in 1948 at the age of 17.

Mary Evangeline Wold Haas met her husband Elmer Clifford Haas at Union College.  He asked her to roller skate with him, and she said no because he was too short and he could not roller skate backwards.  He learned to skate backwards but did not grow any taller. They were married March 26, 1948 in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the age of 17.  At the time of her death, they had been married 68 years.

Mom was a second generation Seventh-day Adventist.  She longed for the day when Jesus would come to raise her up to live eternally in heaven and on the earth made new.

Survivors include: spouse Elmer Haas, 4 daughters, Mary Kay Duvall, Laura Jean Ryan, Candice Carol Hollingsead, and Evangeline Ellen deFluiter.  Mom has 8 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild.

Mary Evangeline Wold Haas is preceded in death by her mother and father, Mary Annette Wentworth Wold and Ernest Wold.  As well as her grandson Ryan Duvall.

 

Those are the facts of my mom’s life.  Not very interesting.  Every life contains the basic facts.  But the realness of my mom is in her legacy.  This is the story to share.

Mom.  She taught me what the love of God actually means because I saw this love in my mom, every day of my life.   She never raised her voice to me, never spanked me even when I needed it.  I knew she loved me beyond any expression of words.

She taught me to love God with every fiber of my being and to love all others regardless of who they were or what they may have done.  She taught me in the darkest hours of my life, God is right beside me and will be a strong arm to carry me through any difficulty.

Mom taught me how to pray.  To believe God would always hear and answer my prayers.  She taught me what the covenants of Sabbath and marriage mean, the sacredness and the blessings God intends for me.  The loyalty to God in these covenants.

Mom taught me how to have fun.  She loved to sled, swim, snow and water ski, play the piano, and read.  Each summer at camp in North Dakota we would end the summer by canoeing to Canada and then swim back to North Dakota.  Mom taught swimming lessons at the camp every summer all summer.  Snow skiing was a passion from when she was a little girl.  As an adult, she broke her leg twice, her arm, and her collarbone.   Her grandpa Wold made her wooden skis and taught her how to ski.  She loved music and could play the piano like no one else I knew, transposing on the spot from one key to another.  She learned German so she could talk with my dad’s family.  Mom loved to sew.  She would take us into fancy dress stores.  We would try on clothes and she would take pictures.  Then she made her own patterns from the pictures and would sew wonderful clothes.  When I was a child, mom would make me a new white nightie every spring.  We would get up in the night when the moon was full, singing and dancing in the back yard.  “Dance with the Dollie with the hole in her stocking”.  I had 3 sisters so there were 5 females in the house.  Every spring my mom would sew each of use and herself 10 new dresses each, so for the summer we would have new dresses for every day of camp meeting.  That meant 50 dresses each spring. The first store bought dress from my parents was for my baptism.  When I got married, my mom sewed my wedding dress and going away dress, her own dress, 4 brides’ maid’s dresses and 4 candle lighter dresses all designed from pictures in magazines.

Mom taught piano lessons in our home while I was growing up.  She expected us girls to teach ourselves from listening to her teach.  Later in life she worked as a secretary in church offices and conference offices.  Mom taught me to love reading.  On Friday nights, we were allowed to read all night long if we wanted.  I was supplied with all the books possible.

 

Will I miss my mom?  Every single day in my life that I have not been with her, I have missed her.  She is a part of me.  But I have a hope.  A hope that my mom taught me even as a small child.  Jesus is coming again.  We shall be together again.  The last time I was with mom in 2013, while she still knew who I was, we prayed together, and I promised my mom I would meet her in the sky.  I would be there with her.

I long for that day.  I will get to be with so many dear ones that I miss.  My nephew Ryan Duvall, Herman, Janeece, and Leo Widicker, Emil and Esther Widicker, Willis Seibold, Lawrence and Olie Stoltz, Marcella Stoltz, Kelly Stolz, Randy Trout, Lowell Nelson, Robert Montgomery, Lori Gottfried, Grace and Gilbert Gottfried, Rachel Haas, Virgil Haas, Lloyd Haas, Emmanuel and Lydia Haas, Jerome and Ramona’s dear daughter, Barbara Haas, Great grandma Harr, Great grandpa Haas, Adolph Haas, Avonelle Haas, Sam and Ruth Timothy, Jean Carlson, Ronnie Carlson, Donna Heib, Sophie Lang, Sam and Frieda Heib, Bernard Heib, Mary Wold, Great grandpa Wold, Jensine Wold, Great aunt Ellen, Great uncle Barney, Carol and Howard Hollingsead, Leonora Hollingsead, Gladys Hollingsead, there are so many, so many to list, I cannot put them all down.  I want to be with each one, to never part again.  There will be no more death and no more tears.  We have a hope!

 

My mom, she taught me how to live on this earth, but she taught me how to live here so I can live in heaven with my Father who is with us all.  Dear friends, if you have learned nothing else today, please let my mom teach you just one more lesson, God, the Father of us all, loves you and wants you to be ready to meet Him in the sky when He comes.  Talk to Him today, do not wait, work for the night is coming.

 

 

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