This was sent to me by Randy Hooser Powerful Prolific <tnrustic@yahoo.com >Cousins and Hauser Friends, On the 29th of October, we lost the Hauser/Hooser> equivalent of a patron saint in the family. Kenneth J. Hauser Jr. is gone. Details are scarse. I only have this account provided via the WS Journal. However as soon as I hear more I will inform you. The following is taken from the paper at this web address - http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/local/obits/ob041.htm: HAUSER MIAMI, Fla. -- Kenneth J. Hauser Jr. died Sunday, Oct. 29, 2000. A memorial service will be held at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5, in the Garden of Memory, Christ the King Lutheran Church, 11295 S.W. 57th Ave. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the church's Memorial Pipe Organ Fund. Prof. Kenneth J. Hauser Jr., as many of you know is responsible for the book "The Alsatian American Family -- The Hausers" written in 1979. Prof. Kenneth, Dr Steve Hooser of Purdue University and I worked together in 1997 on the whitepaper "Migration, Ministry and a Moniker" which was published in April 1999 in the Eurasian Studies Yearbook Vol 71 1999. It was an academic journal in Linguistics supported from Indiana University. Deepest Regards Randy Hooser PS Please help me get the word out. Cousins in Hope & Columbus, IN; Owen County IN; and Marshalltown, IA >need to be informed.