Cherokee Municipal Cemetery, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma

The funeral for Samuel Christian “Chris” Haas Jr., 72, of Cherokee, will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at Lanman Funeral Home Chapel, Cherokee. Don R. Hansen will officiate. Burial will be in Cherokee Municipal Cemetery. Visitation will be 5-7 p.m. today and 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

He was born Jan. 21, 1935, in Cherokee, to Samuel C. and Mary Ursula Egan Haas, and died Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007, in Oklahoma Heart Hospital.

He attended school in Ingersoll, graduating from Cherokee High School in 1953. He graduated from Oklahoma A&M; (OSU) and was employed as a seismographer for Phillips Petroleum. He served in the Army as an instructor at White Sands and Sandia Base, N.M. He married Bonnie Jean Sprague July 12, 1959, in Powell, Wyo. He served as assistant clerk in the Alva branch, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He recently retired from farming a Centennial Farm in the Ingersoll area.

Surviving are his wife of 48 years, Bonnie, of the home; two daughters, Susan Poston of Oklahoma City and Christine Hurst of Stillwater; one sister, Katherine Haggard of Wichita, Kan.; and four grandchildren.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, heart or diabetes division.

Condolences may be made online at www.lanmanmemorials.com.

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