Rosemarie Haas

denn sie hinterlassen Spuren in unseren Herzen.” (Anon)

(“People, whom we love, remain forever, since they leave behind their tracks in our hearts.”)

Rosemarie Haas, 4/19/1931-2/27/2022, age 90, passed away peacefully on Sunday, February 27, 2022. The loving and devoted wife to Dr. Michael Haas for 65 years, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, Rosemarie is survived by her brother, Ernst Heinl (Doris), and three sons: Robert (Anne Cylkowski), John (Maureen Senick), and Fred (Mary Ellen Manor). She has six grandchildren: Peter, Erivae, Bridgette (Neil Leising), John, Mark, and Jennifer (Jack Campbell). Her great granddaughter is Ellie Rose Leising.

Rosemarie Heinl was born of Otto Heinl and Marie Schäck in the then-Sudeten German (now Cheb) town of Schönbach (now Luby), Czech Republic on April 19, 1931. Her family was professionally engaged in the prestigious Schönbach violin industry, until WWII took away her father and home.

With her mother and younger brother Ernst, Rosemarie moved first to Germany, and in 1949 to Baltimore, Maryland. With determination, energy, and sacrifice she worked all manner of jobs to survive and adapt to her new home. There she met and married her husband-to-be, Michael Haas. His successful medical career was in no small measure possible due to Rosemarie’s sacrifice and support, even moving back to Europe for five years with two small children to enable her husband’s medical education.

Throughout her life Rosemarie would delight and enrich her family and friends with her skills in the kitchen, where she could bake impressive delicious multilayered tortes and pastries. She was also a masterful seamstress and crochetier, sewing entire outfits, altering and mending the family’s clothes, and creating all manner of knitted wonders. She loved spending winters in St. Petersburg, Florida, time with her grandkids, and – of course – shopping!

We celebrate our wonderful loving Mom and Grama as an inspiration and affirmation of life itself. We will always be indebted to her in so many ways.

There will be a private viewing on Friday, March 4, 2022 at A. H. Peters, 20705 Mack Avenue in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, followed by a short scripture service. Private burial rites will take place at Cadillac Memorial Gardens East, 38425 Garfield, Clinton Township.

Mom, Grama: you will always live on in our hearts!