FLOYD K. HAAS

ANNA, Ill. -- Floyd K. Haas, 82, of Anna died Thursday, Jan. 16, 1997, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale.

He was born Aug. 1, 1914, at Milwaukee, Wis., son of Floyd E. and Melanie Kleih Haas.

He married Elizabeth "Betty" Geffine on Feb. 26, 1938, at Lakewood, Ohio. She died on Feb. 17, 1989.

He attended Denison University in Ohio where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He graduated from the University of Chicago. He was a newspaper publisher and past president of The Calumet Index and the Beverly Review. He was a member of Union Jacs in Anna.

Survivors include a son, Robert Haas of Lake of Egypt; a daughter, Laurie Endsley of Cobden; a sister, Joan Johnson of Chicago; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held Feb. 1 at 11 a.m. at Crain Funeral Home in Anna.

Phares Martin and William S. Geffine Jr. will officiate. Entombment will be at a later date at Pleasant Grove Memorial Park Mausoleum in Murphysboro.