Anna Mae Haas, age 90 of Elgin, ND passed away Wednesday morning, July 5, 2017 at Jacobson Memorial Hospital Care Center in Elgin.

Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 am MT on Monday, July 10, 2017 at Bethesda United Methodist Church in Elgin. Pastor Daryl Thompson will officiate with burial to follow at Bethesda United Methodist Cemetery in Elgin.

Visitation will be from 3-7pm on Sunday, July 9th at the Evanson Jensen Funeral Home in Elgin.

ANNA MAE NORDSTROM was born on May 22, 1927 at Baldwin, ND to John and Nellie (Peterson) Nordstrom. She was christened on May 13, 1934. As a young girl, the family moved to Bismarck, ND where she graduated from Bismarck High School. After graduation, Anna Mae was employed by the Northwest Bell Telephone Company as an operator.

Anna married Edward Haas of Elgin at Glasgow, MT on October 22, 1946, attended by her sister and husband, Emy and Albert Beardsley. Anna Mae and Edward farmed and ranched southeast of Elgin. The Haas homestead was celebrated as a North Dakota Centennial Farm in 2009. Anna loved finding new recipes and trying them out, 4-H, reading, table tennis, checkers, cards, arts and crafts, genealogy, canning and gardening.

Anna was the mother of six children; Karen Diane, born and died 1947, Larry M. (Mary Solmonson) Elgin, ND; Constance Marie (Greg Werner), Custer, SD; Deborah Ann (Tom Smith), Longview, TX; Thomas James (Rhonda Fischer), Elgin, ND; and Linda Gail (Jeremiah O'Shea), Bismarck, ND. Also surviving Anna Mae is one brother and sister-in-law Gilbert and Evelyn Nordstrom, Bismarck, ND; 9 grandchildren, Scott Haas (Michele Ressler), Bismarck, ND; Jennifer Werner (Daniel Tolbert), West Jordan, UT; Krystal Werner (Jared Nickell), Pryor Creek, OK; Thomas Werner, Tiffany Scherr (Joe Gartner), Menoken, ND; Stephanie Haas (Jesse Clooten), Bismarck, ND; Samantha Haas, on homestead, Elgin, ND; Trevor O'Shea, Bismarck, ND; Chelsey O'Shea (Matt Best), Bismarck, ND; 17 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Preceding Anna Mae in death are her parents, her husband Edward, who passed away in Bismarck, ND on June 3, 2005, daughter Karen, 3 brothers, Robert, Henry, and Norman Nordstrom, and 4 sisters, Viola Klein, Emy Beardsley, Mary Weixel, and Rose Hellman.

Memorials will be preferred, in Anna Mae's name, to fund pediatric cancer research.