Roll Call Tribute

Victor LaVern Hauser 

July 1, 1929 - December 23, 2025 

Victor LaVern Hauser was called home to be with our Lord and Savior peacefully on Tuesday, December 23, 2025, at his home in Fort Worth, TX. He was surrounded by family.

Born into a farming family in northern Oklahoma during the dustbowl period Dr. Hauser became an accomplished agricultural engineer earning B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Oklahoma State University, The University of California at David and Texas A&M University respectively. The oldest of his siblings he was born on July 01, 1929, and is preceded in death by his father Victor T. Hauser mother Helen LeVerne Carter Hauser, brother Louis Hauser (born 1931) and sister Flora Louisa Hauser (born 1938). He is survived by brother Willis Duane Hauser (born 1936). He proudly served his country in the US Army for two years in Korea following the conflict and then as a civilian civil servant for several decades as a research engineer for the USDA, Agricultural Research Service. Responsible for research projects in the Great Plains of the United States, his specialties included water management and crop production, hydrology, soil erosion control, irrigation, hydrogeology, ground water recharge, and water quality. Following his civil service with USDA, he served as a principal engineer for Mitretek Systems in San Antonio, TX focusing on remediation activities for ground water, landfills, fuel spill sites, and similar site remediation activities for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army. He authored a technical textbook on this landfill work and through the course of his career authored or co-authored 146 technical papers, reports and other major technical works.

In 1958 he married the love of his life, Bettye Jeane Hauser after meeting at a Sunday School class in Amarillo, TX. They shared 66 years of marriage before her passing in 2024 and together loved to go dancing, travel, and were active servant leaders in the Boy Scouts of America.

In addition to his brother Willis, Victor is survived by his sons, Bret Randal and daughter-in-law Karen of Fort Worth and son Matt Russell and daughter-in-law Elaine Hill of Houston, five grandchildren, Kari, Mark, DJ, Adrian and Jason; three great-grandchildren, Luke, Ella and Owen.

Visitation will be held January 15, 2026, at 5:00p.m. at Porter Loring Mortuary North 2102 North Loop 1604 East San Antonio, Texas. Funeral Service will be held on January 16, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. at Coker Methodist Church 14630 Wurzbach Pkwy San Antonio, Texas.