Hass, George C.; Apr 26, 1918, New Holstein Reporter
DIED IN CANADA
One of the saddest deaths that it has been the duty of the Reporter to record was that of George Hass who died of pneumonia at a hospital in Saskatoon, Canada, Sunday, April 21st.
Mr. and Mrs. Hass and family of five children had but barely returned to Canada from a three months visit here with relatives and friends, and right in the midst of busy preparations for his spring work, he was stricken with the dread disease pneumonia. As soon as the nature of the illness revealed itself he was removed to a hospital at Saskatoon where the best of care and medical attention was given the stricken man. But all proved of no avail. After a week of brave fighting he succumbed to the inroads which the disease had made upon his strength and vitality.
George Christian Hass was born in Kochendorf, Schleswig Holstein Germany, November 19th, 1883. In 1890 the family emigrated to America, coming directly to New Holstein. Here, March 23d, 1904, he was married to Miss Olga Greve, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Greve, of this village. In 1906 Mr. Hass joined the tide of American emigration into Western Canada, whose broad, fertile prairies proved so attractive a lure to all who were looking for cheaper lands than could be obtained in the older and more thickly settled states.
He bought a half section of land on the distant west Canadian frontier, remote from railroads and town connections. Here he brought his young wife and their eight months old baby daughter, Valeria. And here together the two faced the arduous hardships and the oft times harder isolation of the pioneer prairie farmer. But their hearts were stout and brave, their hands were strong and willing, and by way of hard, unintermittent toil, in a few years they carved a fine farm out of the virgin prairie. A short time ago he added the half-section adjoining his to his holding, and he was hence, at his untimely death, the owner of a fine farm of one section.
Four more children came to make happy their home circle: Ruby now aged 10, Raymond aged 8, Melvin aged 5, and baby Ethel, age 11 months.
But although they prospered in their Canadian home, their hearts still clung to the United States and New Holstein in particular and it was their intention to sell out at the close of the war and return here. But alas! He was destined to return here sooner and in a way other than he or anyone else had either foreseen or anticipated. Mr. Hass was always of robust and vigorous health, and his untimely end is as unexpected as it is sad in the extreme.
Mr. Hass was not only a hard working man and a good citizen, but he was also a fine type of a family man. Kind, indulgent, liberal, his was an ideal family life at all time. His home circle was to him not alone a place of rest and comfort after his arduous day's toil; but of companionship as well, and from it he drew inspiration for the renewed toil of the succeeding days. He loved sociability and the contact and companionship of his fellowmen and all too often the family missed these in the isolation of their pioneer frontier struggle. And this was one reason why they always desired to return to the more congenial surrounding of his former home.
The remains were brought here for burial, his brother, Peter, and brother in law, Ferdinand Kreymann; having met the family at St. Paul on their way here. Funeral services will be at the New Holstein cemetery tomorrow, Saturday, afternoon at two o'clock.
Besides his sadly bereaved family, his aged mother, Mrs. John Hass, four brothers: Peter and Fred of New Holstein, and Henry and William of Canada; and four sisters: Mrs. Herman Bartels, Mrs. Fred Engel, Mrs. Robert Greve and Miss Ella Hass, all residents of New Holstein, mourn his sad and untimely death.
DIED IN CANADA
One of the saddest deaths that it has been the duty of the Reporter to record was that of George Hass who died of pneumonia at a hospital in Saskatoon, Canada, Sunday, April 21st.
Mr. and Mrs. Hass and family of five children had but barely returned to Canada from a three months visit here with relatives and friends, and right in the midst of busy preparations for his spring work, he was stricken with the dread disease pneumonia. As soon as the nature of the illness revealed itself he was removed to a hospital at Saskatoon where the best of care and medical attention was given the stricken man. But all proved of no avail. After a week of brave fighting he succumbed to the inroads which the disease had made upon his strength and vitality.
George Christian Hass was born in Kochendorf, Schleswig Holstein Germany, November 19th, 1883. In 1890 the family emigrated to America, coming directly to New Holstein. Here, March 23d, 1904, he was married to Miss Olga Greve, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Greve, of this village. In 1906 Mr. Hass joined the tide of American emigration into Western Canada, whose broad, fertile prairies proved so attractive a lure to all who were looking for cheaper lands than could be obtained in the older and more thickly settled states.
He bought a half section of land on the distant west Canadian frontier, remote from railroads and town connections. Here he brought his young wife and their eight months old baby daughter, Valeria. And here together the two faced the arduous hardships and the oft times harder isolation of the pioneer prairie farmer. But their hearts were stout and brave, their hands were strong and willing, and by way of hard, unintermittent toil, in a few years they carved a fine farm out of the virgin prairie. A short time ago he added the half-section adjoining his to his holding, and he was hence, at his untimely death, the owner of a fine farm of one section.
Four more children came to make happy their home circle: Ruby now aged 10, Raymond aged 8, Melvin aged 5, and baby Ethel, age 11 months.
But although they prospered in their Canadian home, their hearts still clung to the United States and New Holstein in particular and it was their intention to sell out at the close of the war and return here. But alas! He was destined to return here sooner and in a way other than he or anyone else had either foreseen or anticipated. Mr. Hass was always of robust and vigorous health, and his untimely end is as unexpected as it is sad in the extreme.
Mr. Hass was not only a hard working man and a good citizen, but he was also a fine type of a family man. Kind, indulgent, liberal, his was an ideal family life at all time. His home circle was to him not alone a place of rest and comfort after his arduous day's toil; but of companionship as well, and from it he drew inspiration for the renewed toil of the succeeding days. He loved sociability and the contact and companionship of his fellowmen and all too often the family missed these in the isolation of their pioneer frontier struggle. And this was one reason why they always desired to return to the more congenial surrounding of his former home.
The remains were brought here for burial, his brother, Peter, and brother in law, Ferdinand Kreymann; having met the family at St. Paul on their way here. Funeral services will be at the New Holstein cemetery tomorrow, Saturday, afternoon at two o'clock.
Besides his sadly bereaved family, his aged mother, Mrs. John Hass, four brothers: Peter and Fred of New Holstein, and Henry and William of Canada; and four sisters: Mrs. Herman Bartels, Mrs. Fred Engel, Mrs. Robert Greve and Miss Ella Hass, all residents of New Holstein, mourn his sad and untimely death.
Hass, George C.; Apr 26, 1918, New Holstein Reporter
DIED IN CANADA
One of the saddest deaths that it has been the duty of the Reporter to record was that of George Hass who died of pneumonia at a hospital in Saskatoon, Canada, Sunday, April 21st.
Mr. and Mrs. Hass and family of five children had but barely returned to Canada from a three months visit here with relatives and friends, and right in the midst of busy preparations for his spring work, he was stricken with the dread disease pneumonia. As soon as the nature of the illness revealed itself he was removed to a hospital at Saskatoon where the best of care and medical attention was given the stricken man. But all proved of no avail. After a week of brave fighting he succumbed to the inroads which the disease had made upon his strength and vitality.
George Christian Hass was born in Kochendorf, Schleswig Holstein Germany, November 19th, 1883. In 1890 the family emigrated to America, coming directly to New Holstein. Here, March 23d, 1904, he was married to Miss Olga Greve, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Greve, of this village. In 1906 Mr. Hass joined the tide of American emigration into Western Canada, whose broad, fertile prairies proved so attractive a lure to all who were looking for cheaper lands than could be obtained in the older and more thickly settled states.
He bought a half section of land on the distant west Canadian frontier, remote from railroads and town connections. Here he brought his young wife and their eight months old baby daughter, Valeria. And here together the two faced the arduous hardships and the oft times harder isolation of the pioneer prairie farmer. But their hearts were stout and brave, their hands were strong and willing, and by way of hard, unintermittent toil, in a few years they carved a fine farm out of the virgin prairie. A short time ago he added the half-section adjoining his to his holding, and he was hence, at his untimely death, the owner of a fine farm of one section.
Four more children came to make happy their home circle: Ruby now aged 10, Raymond aged 8, Melvin aged 5, and baby Ethel, age 11 months.
But although they prospered in their Canadian home, their hearts still clung to the United States and New Holstein in particular and it was their intention to sell out at the close of the war and return here. But alas! He was destined to return here sooner and in a way other than he or anyone else had either foreseen or anticipated. Mr. Hass was always of robust and vigorous health, and his untimely end is as unexpected as it is sad in the extreme.
Mr. Hass was not only a hard working man and a good citizen, but he was also a fine type of a family man. Kind, indulgent, liberal, his was an ideal family life at all time. His home circle was to him not alone a place of rest and comfort after his arduous day's toil; but of companionship as well, and from it he drew inspiration for the renewed toil of the succeeding days. He loved sociability and the contact and companionship of his fellowmen and all too often the family missed these in the isolation of their pioneer frontier struggle. And this was one reason why they always desired to return to the more congenial surrounding of his former home.
The remains were brought here for burial, his brother, Peter, and brother in law, Ferdinand Kreymann; having met the family at St. Paul on their way here. Funeral services will be at the New Holstein cemetery tomorrow, Saturday, afternoon at two o'clock.
Besides his sadly bereaved family, his aged mother, Mrs. John Hass, four brothers: Peter and Fred of New Holstein, and Henry and William of Canada; and four sisters: Mrs. Herman Bartels, Mrs. Fred Engel, Mrs. Robert Greve and Miss Ella Hass, all residents of New Holstein, mourn his sad and untimely death.
DIED IN CANADA
One of the saddest deaths that it has been the duty of the Reporter to record was that of George Hass who died of pneumonia at a hospital in Saskatoon, Canada, Sunday, April 21st.
Mr. and Mrs. Hass and family of five children had but barely returned to Canada from a three months visit here with relatives and friends, and right in the midst of busy preparations for his spring work, he was stricken with the dread disease pneumonia. As soon as the nature of the illness revealed itself he was removed to a hospital at Saskatoon where the best of care and medical attention was given the stricken man. But all proved of no avail. After a week of brave fighting he succumbed to the inroads which the disease had made upon his strength and vitality.
George Christian Hass was born in Kochendorf, Schleswig Holstein Germany, November 19th, 1883. In 1890 the family emigrated to America, coming directly to New Holstein. Here, March 23d, 1904, he was married to Miss Olga Greve, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Greve, of this village. In 1906 Mr. Hass joined the tide of American emigration into Western Canada, whose broad, fertile prairies proved so attractive a lure to all who were looking for cheaper lands than could be obtained in the older and more thickly settled states.
He bought a half section of land on the distant west Canadian frontier, remote from railroads and town connections. Here he brought his young wife and their eight months old baby daughter, Valeria. And here together the two faced the arduous hardships and the oft times harder isolation of the pioneer prairie farmer. But their hearts were stout and brave, their hands were strong and willing, and by way of hard, unintermittent toil, in a few years they carved a fine farm out of the virgin prairie. A short time ago he added the half-section adjoining his to his holding, and he was hence, at his untimely death, the owner of a fine farm of one section.
Four more children came to make happy their home circle: Ruby now aged 10, Raymond aged 8, Melvin aged 5, and baby Ethel, age 11 months.
But although they prospered in their Canadian home, their hearts still clung to the United States and New Holstein in particular and it was their intention to sell out at the close of the war and return here. But alas! He was destined to return here sooner and in a way other than he or anyone else had either foreseen or anticipated. Mr. Hass was always of robust and vigorous health, and his untimely end is as unexpected as it is sad in the extreme.
Mr. Hass was not only a hard working man and a good citizen, but he was also a fine type of a family man. Kind, indulgent, liberal, his was an ideal family life at all time. His home circle was to him not alone a place of rest and comfort after his arduous day's toil; but of companionship as well, and from it he drew inspiration for the renewed toil of the succeeding days. He loved sociability and the contact and companionship of his fellowmen and all too often the family missed these in the isolation of their pioneer frontier struggle. And this was one reason why they always desired to return to the more congenial surrounding of his former home.
The remains were brought here for burial, his brother, Peter, and brother in law, Ferdinand Kreymann; having met the family at St. Paul on their way here. Funeral services will be at the New Holstein cemetery tomorrow, Saturday, afternoon at two o'clock.
Besides his sadly bereaved family, his aged mother, Mrs. John Hass, four brothers: Peter and Fred of New Holstein, and Henry and William of Canada; and four sisters: Mrs. Herman Bartels, Mrs. Fred Engel, Mrs. Robert Greve and Miss Ella Hass, all residents of New Holstein, mourn his sad and untimely death.
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