Alma Rose Haug, 88, of Baileyville, Kansas, died Monday morning, August 6, 2012 at Life Care Center in Seneca.

Alma was born July 15, 1924, the youngest child of Frank and Bernadine Hulsing Bergman, on a farm northwest of St. Benedict. She graduated from St. Mary’s High School in St. Benedict in 1942. Alma worked on the family farm and moved into the town of St. Benedict with her parents when she was 15 years old. After graduation she did domestic work taking care of mothers with newborns and doing housework. She and her sister Luella worked and varnished all the pews in the St. Mary’s church and all the desks in the school.

On February 27, 1946, she married Robert J. Haug in St. Benedict; the couple enjoyed 62 years of marriage. They raised seven children on a farm southwest of Baileyville, where they lived for 38 years, raising crops and livestock, including cattle and chickens.

She was a member of Sacred Heart Church in Baileyville and served as an officer of the Altar Society. She was also a member of the St. Benedict Oblates. She was in charge of the rosary group for 20 years.

In 1983, Alma and Robert moved to a new home in Baileyville, where she loved gardening, canning, cooking, baking, crocheting and quilting. She quilted on her own and also with the church quilting group for many years.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Bernadine Bergman; three brothers, Raymond, Alfred and Arthur Bergman; and three sisters, Florena Schmitz, Mary Ann Schmitz and Viola Schmitz.

Survivors are her seven children, Doris Haug of Sabetha, Leon (Carol) of Frankfort, Elmer (Jane) of Centralia, Jane (Leland) Niehues of Goff, Laura (Alan) Bock of Beatrice, Nebraska, Tom (Doris) Haug of Vermillion and Sharon (John) Enneking of Seneca; one sister, Luella Schmidt of Burke, Idaho; a brother, Wilfred Bergman of St. Benedict; 19 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren and three step-great-grandchildren.

Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10 AM Thursday, August 9, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Baileyville. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Rosaries will be prayed at 2 & 7 PM Wednesday at Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca.

Memorial contributions may be given for Nemaha County Training Center or Lakeside group home in Sabetha, and sent in care of the family.