William P Haas

William “Bill” Paul Haas, age 89, of Oakland, passed on Monday, June 17, 2024, at the Christian Health Care Center, Wyckoff

He was born to William and Ada Haas in Brooklyn New York. He was raised in the New York City area having lived in East Northport Long Island before moving in 1964 to 10 Bannehr Street in Oakland  where he has lived for the past fifty-five years.

As a young man he sold shoes and later worked at the Sears Department Store in Roosevelt Field Long Island. He graduated from Hofstra University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business.   His career would bring him into the moving and storage industry where he worked for Bekins Moving and Storage first in Carlstadt New Jersey and then they moved him to work at the Chrysler Building in New York City. He later took a position with McCollister Van Lines that was based in Burlington New Jersey but he was able to work from home in Oakland before retiring in 1999.

He met Arlene Miller on a blind date and one year later they were married.  Through the years their marriage was blessed with a daughter Darlene and a son William and a granddaughter Lauren.  Bill and Arlene lived through the difficulty of Arlene being one of the first patients of the heart valve pioneer, Dr Denton Cooley, where in Houston, TX she had a metal “Cooley Cutter Valve” implanted in her heart in 1978. They enjoyed 55 years of marriage and celebrated their 50th anniversary on a cruise to Alaska along with the family.

William was the loving husband of fifty-five years to the late Arlene Hass who was buried in 2009 with her beloved parakeet named Panzie; he was the devoted father of Darlene Kohan and her husband Bruce of West Milford and William P. Hass, Jr. and his wife Jana of Lovettsville, VA; he was the cherished grandfather of Lauren Kohan Loehmann and her husband Michael of White Plains, NY, and loving great-grandfather to Chase Michael Loehmann.  He was predeceased by his son William P Hass, Jr (2021).