Kenneth Haack, 77, of Tulsa, OK, passed away peacefully on July 21, 2024, surrounded by family.

Ken was born on September 24, 1946 as the first of three children to Alvin and Maxine Haack in Auburn, Nebraska. He grew up on a farm, along with his sisters Jan and Barb, and helped his dad with haying and milking cows before school every morning.

Ken was in 4-H and showed a calf at the county fair. He was also in Boy Scouts. In high school, he participated in basketball, football, track, and band. He once took a career aptitude test, where he was informed that he could do any job except repair watches because his hands were too big. Ken was a well-rounded student whose skills ranged from sports to cooking.

When Ken graduated as valedictorian from Johnson High School in 1964, he went on to study Civil Engineering at the University of Nebraska. It was there that he met Connie Zink, another student at the University of Nebraska. While in college, Ken worked for the ASCS office measuring cropland and bushels of grain in farm storage bins. He also went to California and worked for the Department of Roads in the summer.

After graduating with a degree in Engineering, Ken started his first post-college job at Texaco in Wichita, Kansas as a petroleum engineer, kickstarting a fifty-five year career in the petroleum industry.

In 1969, he and Connie were married. During their twenty- six year marriage, Ken and Connie went on to raise four wonderful children, Karen Maxine, Daniel Kenneth, Tonia Kathleen, and Kelly Evelyn. This was primarily in their house in south Tulsa, where he still resided until the end of his life.

He was always an involved parent, sometimes coaching sports teams, and sometimes filming from the sidelines. One way or another, he was consistently present. He took the family camping and on other family adventures. Each summer and winter, Ken would drive the family to Nebraska for quality time with extended family.

Ken met Marge Dover in 1995 on a blind date set up by friends, and they ended up enjoying life together for almost three decades. They loved the outdoors, and traveled to national parks including the Grand Canyon, Missouri, Colorado, Utah, the Florida Gulf Coast, Texas and North Carolina.

Ken was preceded in death by his mother, Maxine Blinde Haack and his father, Alvin Haack. He is survived by his partner of nearly thirty years, Marge Dover; his children Karen and her husband Tom Decker, Dan Haack and his wife Jodee, Toni and her husband Adam Viles, and Kelly Haack and her husband Mike Morrison; his grandchildren Colton Streetman and his wife Iva and his great-granddaughter Vesa, Devon Streetman, Adrienne Streetman and her wife Kayla, Cameron Straley, Madison Decker, Grayson Decker, Carter Viles, and Anya Morrison; his sisters Jan and her husband Don Gerdes, and Barb and her husband Ken Swanson; five fantastic nephews and their families, along with numerous friends and colleagues.

Services were held at All Souls Unitarian Church on Sunday, July 28th, 2024 at 2:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Iron Gate Tulsa, Tulsa’s largest stand-alone soup kitchen and grocery pantry (irongatetulsa.org) and the Tulsa SPCA (tulsaspca.org), two organizations that Ken supported.