Stanley Percy HASS was born 22 Jan 1899, in Elmira, Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada, to parents Heinrich 'Henry' Jr. and Elizabeth (BUCHER) HASS.
Stan immigrated to the United States in 1915. He returned to Canada in 1923.
1899 Birth Record
1923 Border Crossing
1923 Marriage
1953
Stanley Percy HASS married Dorothy DUBRICK 29 Sep 1923, in Lincoln, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. Stanley took his bride to the United States to live.
They had four children, Patricia (1924), June (1925), Stanley Irvin (1927), and Donald (1928). The children were all born in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
1930 Census
Record shows the family living on 2729 Eleanor Street in Chicago.
He was working as a salesman for an office supply company.
1936 Social Security Application
At the
age of 37, Stanley lived at
120 Minneola Street in Hinsdale, Illinois, and worked
for a manufacturing company.
US Citizenship
Index card shows Stan began the application process.
The 1940 Census claims he was Naturalized, but his wife listed as an
Alien.
1940 Census
Record shows the family living at 1208 South First Avenue,
Maywood, Cook County, Illinois. Stan continued as a salesman for an office
supplies company.
Easter 1947
Grown Children
Patsy, Stan, Don, & June
1956
Dorothy & Stanley HASS
Christmas 1961
Dorothy & Stanley
Stan was a practical joker. He used to take all kinds of gag-joke tricks, like a handshake buzzer, with him every time he went back to Canada to visit family. The best was the time he put a whoopie cushion under his mother's chair. She was a little old lady then. When she sat down it was hilarious. His face was red, and he didn't stop laughing for two weeks.
The family moved to California in 1944.
A letter written when his grandson, David, was born:
Dear Stan and Pat;
Thanks a million for your phone call of Friday enlightening us of your and our good fortune. We are equally as happy as you are. How can you be blessed with a boy with black hair and baby blue eyes like mine. I must attribute it to my good past. (No copy to our Dear Mother) Glad to hear that Pat is behaving so well. She is a Sweetheart. You are certainly fortunate to have Cathy take over when Mother and David Weston return home. It must relieve you of much responsibility.
Mother, Pat, and I went to church this a.m. What could prevent us on such a joyous occasion. Mother called about an hour ago and informed me that June and Spence had returned from their honeymoon. THey are at Pat and Don's at present but will be at 3611 at 7.00. You probably have realized I'm writing from my leisure joint taking cae of a few minor details. Mother is the Mgr. and I take care of the janitor service.
I can smell Mother's Super DeLuxe Hamburgers so I must ramble along.
Our very best wishes to you, Pat, my little girl Cathy, and future Proviso second baseman.
Sincerely,
Mother and Dad
PS - Regarding the enclosure - as usual, use your good judgement - flowers for Pat or ???
A letter written to his 6-year-old grandson, dated August 4th, 1960, reads as follows:
Dear Rattlesnake Dave!
Over the weekend I went to our hilly desert after a terrific battle I was successful in being the victor over "Pete". It was a gloomy day so the ten and twenty foot rattlers kept away from me. They were either afraid of me or didn't like the smell of y hair tonic, or maybe my feet. I removed the venom from Pete. Since he will be growing up in a domestic atmosphere he should be a good pal to Theodore. Poor Pete is in a serious condition temporarity. In chasing him in the desert I awakened a 300 pound wolf who stepped on his back and crushed it. Our vet saved his life by attaching or insterting a means of furnishing oxygen to his little lungs. I know with your care and nursing this equipment may be discareded in the near future, Rattlesnake Dave. Pete's father, morhter, and little brother join me in wishing you much future happiness together. Pete's diet consists of burrs, Canadian thistles, rose throns, toe nails, and snails as a tenderizer.
Nice striking,
Grandpa "Python" Hass
"I only saw him twice, when we went out to California (about 1960 and 1967). He had a pink Cadillac with a Burmuda carriage bell he would ding and kids would laugh at it. [*DWH]
"He had a parakeet named "Petey." On our trip in 1960, when we visited there, this bird could talk and everything. They would let him out and he would fly all over their house in Pasadena. In their fenced in backyard, they had a tortoise that would live in the corner that I liked to go and look at. They had a lot of hummingbirds and fruit trees. One tree was an apricot tree." [*DWH]
Before retiring, Stan was with Royal Typewriter as a sales manager. They
lived at 3611 Copeland Place, Los Angeles, California. While he was retired,
he worked as a night watchman at Max Factor.
Stan was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the summer of 1970. In 1971, four months after being diagnosed with cancer of the lungs and spine, spinal surgery was done, which left him bedridden with paralysis from the waist down for the three months until his death at 73 years old. He suffered from terminal bronchopneumonia his last two days. Stanley P. HASS died 25 Jan 1972, in South Pasadena, Los Angeles, California.
[*DWH David Weston Hass]
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