Charles Haas | Obituary
Charles Eugene Haas
September 26, 1925 – July 15, 2019
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Charles Eugene Haas, 93, died, Monday, July 15, 2019, after brief stays at Gundersen Health System and Hillview Healthcare Center in La Crosse. He was born Sept. 26, 1925, at Withee, Clark County, Wis., in the youngest of five sons born to Thomas J. and Alice La Moine (Powers) Haas. He completed elementary education at Moody School, and high school at Withee High School. He earned his B.A. from Wisconsin State College-Superior in 1948, with a double major in English and history and began his teaching career as English teacher in Cameron, Wis. In 1956, he received an M.A. in English at the University of Iowa. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Denver, in 1964, in linguistics and semantics. From 1956 to 1962, he taught English at Keokuk Community College in Keokuk, Iowa. From 1964 to 1993, he taught in the Speech Communications Department at UW-La Crosse, he retired in June 1993. From 1951 to 1954, Charles served in the Army Security Agency. During this time he attended the Army Language School in Oberammergau, Bavaria, from which he graduated as a Russian language translator in 1952. He was stationed at Herzogenaurach, Bavaria. He married a fellow English teacher, Shirley Mahannah, at the Methodist Church in Keokuk, in June 1959. A daughter, Nancy Jane, completed the family in 1968.
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