Dennis Haaland

Dennis Allan Haaland, age 77, sadly passed away from dementia and Parkinson's complications on December 7, 2024 at the Cherrelyn Care Center in Littleton, CO. 

Funeral services will be on Friday December 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM CST (visitation at noon) at Parkway Funeral Service, 2330 Tyler Pkwy, Bismarck. Burial will be at St Mary’s Cemetery. Fellowship of coffee and light refreshments to follow in the basement of Parkway Funeral Service. 

Dennis was born June 8, 1947 in Veblen, SD to Harold and Arlene Haaland. After being raised on the family farm and graduating from Veblen High School, he enlisted to the National Guard to help the country if needed and went to Business School at the North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton ND. He moved to Minneapolis for work opportunities. 

He married the love of his life, Betty Ann Buechler on June 10, 1972 in Strasburg, ND. They started married life living in Richfield and then Apple Valley, MN. While in the Minneapolis area, they had two children, Cheri Ann and Aaron Dennis. Dennis worked for the Aylward and Chase Corporations as a car stereo installer, before moving to Morris, MN to own the Morris Motel for seven years. Bismarck, ND became their next home and there Dennis worked at Ace Hardware and True Value. After a brief stint in Dickinson working at Walmart, they moved to Maple Grove, MN where he worked again in hardware, this time at another Ace Hardware and a Do-It-Best Hardware until he retired in 2015. When Betty retired as well, they moved to Colorado to be closer to their daughter and granddaughter who had moved there a year prior. Always the hard worker, he got bored and worked parttime at Safeway Grocery for a couple years until his health made him step back. 

Since his passing, the words most everyone has used to describe him have been “kind, gentle and caring.” And that he was. He’d help his family any possible way he could. He loved helping his customers in all the different hardware stores. His calm and easy-going demeanor were one-of-a-kind and will be sorely missed by all who knew him.

Dennis is terribly missed and survived by his wife of 52 years, Betty; daughter, Cheri (Mike) Maestas; granddaughter, Morgan; grandson, Carson; brothers, Dayle (Ruth) Haaland and Darrell Haaland; sisters, Myrna (Jack) Huber and Marcine (Mark) Evan; Betty’s sisters, Marlene Loehlein, Dee (Rick) Arends, Patti (Al) Wangler, Elaine (Pete) Brendel and brothers, Terry (Evy) Buechler and Alvin (Darlene) Buechler. Other special people that will miss Dennis are Gina and his care team from the Cherrelyn Care Center, Nicholas Ragone, 23 nieces and nephews and many great-nieces and nephews. 

He was preceded in death by their beloved son, Aaron Dennis in 1993; parents, Harold and Arlene; in-laws, Ferdinand and Cecilia Buechler; and sisters-in-law, Sue Haaland and Sharon Haaland. 

In lieu of flowers, we request donations to your preferred Dementia or Parkinson’s charity, to help further research these diseases which currently have no cure.