Roll Call Tribute

Mikel Lawrence "Mike" Haug 

January 28, 1957 - August 1, 2024 

Mikel Lawrence Haug, age 67, of Seguin, passed away peacefully in hospice care on Thursday, August 1, 2024. He was born on January 28, 1957, to Lawrence Ottmer and Eva Gordon Haug of Seguin. Mike was a 1975 graduate of Seguin High School and the Matador Marching Band and Jazz Band. He is preceded in death by his parents.

Mike was a member of Emanuel’s Lutheran Church where he was Baptized, Confirmed, and married in 1985 to Deborah “Deb” Floyd Haug. After nine years with the USPS, he earned a degree in Mathematics from Southwest Texas State (1993) and began his career in teaching. Mike earned his master’s degree in 2002 at Texas A&M University in College Station.

Mike was a loyal Aggie who “bled deep maroon” and let everyone know it. One of his favorite pastimes was following his stepson’s career in the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band and Corps of Cadets and enjoying his season tickets to the football games.

An avid outdoorsman, Mike said he “loved” to hunt, but he “lived” to fish and cherished his time with his family fishing at Big Shells on Padre Island and fished Costa Rica in 2022. His hunts took him around Texas and Colorado and he enjoyed many years hunting on a small family ranch in Sanderson, Texas. He was in the Explorers in his youth and enjoyed hiking, kayaking and working in the garden.

Mike grew up dancing. He square danced with the Happy Soles in Seguin and the Fire on the Mountain Cloggers of San Antonio where he travelled to Venezuela to teach folk dancing to school children. He danced in the movie, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and on Hee Haw.

Teaching and reaching students was Mike’s passion for thirty-one years first at Saegert Middle School and then Randolph High School on RAFB in San Antonio where he taught high school math for twenty-five years. Mike was a master at encouraging his students and instilling a love of mathematics in them. His students loved him and proudly took to his assigned moniker of “slackers” in his Algebra and AP Calculus classrooms. Mike developed his lessons to teach “real life” math and practical applications of the study of mathematics. He held high expectations for all of his students and was in the classroom routinely twelve hours each day to help them achieve those expectations. He was so proud of them. He was published in Mathematics Teacher, a professional journal for math educators and taught a precalculus course for the University of Texas at Austin at Randolph High School, though he hid his burnt orange faculty ID card in the back of his wallet!

Mike will be remembered for his incredibly positive attitude, kind nature, quick and sarcastic sense of humor, and his unfailing ability to endure any obstacles life threw at him without complaint. He is survived by his wife, Deb, stepson Onni Hynninen of Seguin, two sisters, Tammy Marshall (Kevin) of Floresville and Heidi Milgrim (Steve) of Dumphries, Va., his treasured grandchildren, Murphy and Sara, and numerous beloved nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 1 p.m. at Emanuel’s Lutheran Church, 206 N. Travis St. in Seguin. The family invites everyone to a reception immediately following the service in the church Fellowship Hall to reminisce and honor the life of Mike.