Margaret M. Haug, 91, Seneca, KS, died Friday, November 11, 2005, at Crestview Manor care home in Seneca. She had been a resident there since March 1998.

She was born July 19, 1914, on a farm south of Fidelity, KS, the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Buser Rochel. She attended high school in Seneca for three years and graduated from Haden High School in 1932. She took nurses training at St. Anthony’s Hospital in Sabetha and graduated in 1935. After working at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Milwaukee, WI, she moved to St. Louis, MO and attended a graduate nursing program at St. Louis University from 1940 to 1943. She worked as a public health nurse in the St. Louis area from 1943 to 1948.

On August 26, 1962 she married Emmett Haug at Immaculate Conception Church at St. Mary’s. They lived in Seneca. Her husband, Emmett, died April 11, 1993.

She was a member of Sts. Peter & Paul Church and St. Ann’s Altar Society in Seneca.

Survivors are a brother, Fr. Tony Rochel of St. Louis, MO; two sisters, Suitberta Burdick of Fidelity and Sister Mary Lawrence Rochel of Huntington, ID.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a brother, Fr. Joe Rochel; four sisters, Clara M. Buessing, Sister Cyprian Rochel, Sister Walburg Rochel, and Rosalia Broxterman.

Mass of Christian burial will be 9 AM Saturday at Sts. Peter & Paul Church in Seneca. Burial will be in the church cemetery. A rosary will be prayed at 7 PM Friday at Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca.

Memorials may be given for the Activity Fund at Crestview care home or Sts. Peter & Paul Cemetery, and sent in care of the famly.