Mary Florence (Campbell) Hauck, 100

July 03, 2024

Mary Florence (Campbell) Hauck, 100, passed away peacefully on July 3, 2024, at her home in Lititz, PA. The petite redhead, known as “Flo” to family and friends, was married to Edward B. Hauck, of Lancaster, for 75 years before his passing on January 10, 2021. She was a loving and lovely woman with a wonderful sense of humor.

A native of Warren, Rhode Island, Flo was born in Providence in 1923. She graduated from Warren High School in 1940 and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in1944. Flo met Ed in Providence while he was attending the Army Specialized Training Program at Providence College. After Ed’s deployment to the European Theater of World War Two, Flo moved to New York City, where she worked for American Book Company in the Art Department.

Following the war’s end, Flo and Ed married in November 1945 in Rhode Island while Ed was attending Brown University in Providence. The young couple then moved to Florida when Ed transferred to the University of Miami where he was a stalwart member of the Hurricanes football team, graduating in 1948.

Ed’s career journey took them to Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and New York before they finally settled in Bergen County, New Jersey for nearly two decades, raising five children. Flo often volunteered at their schools but most of all enjoyed being their mom, despite the occasional mayhem and mischief that she encountered. In the mid-1970s they were on the move again with stops in Wynnewood, PA, then Rhode Island and eventually back to New Jersey. They retired in 1985 and moved to Lancaster, Ed’s boyhood hometown.

Flo volunteered with local charities, including Meals on Wheels, and was an avid and active member of the Racquet Club West. She played tennis into her ‘80s and enjoyed unwinding after a morning on the courts with her friends at a local coffee shop.
Flo remained a fan of Big Band music from her younger days, especially Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller, and loved to dance. She was always engaging and generous to family and friends and was still vibrant at her 100th birthday celebration in October 2023, commenting “I’ve never been this old before, so I’m not sure how to do it.”

She loved her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and was loved and cherished by all of them. “I never expected to have great-grandchildren,” she said last month when the little ones paid a visit, “but here they are and they’re lively and fun and wonderful.”

Mary Florence (Campbell) Hauck was the daughter of John H. and Mary Ora Campbell (Sherbert.) Florence was predeceased by her only sibling, Ellen Murphy (Campbell.) She is survived by her five children: Lise Hauck Shine, Peter F. Hauck, John E. Hauck, Edward B. Hauck, Jr., and Mary Martha Hauck; four grandchildren: Bridget and Christopher Shine; Katie Prochnow and Robert Hauck; and three great-grandchildren Claire, Maximilian, and Lily Prochnow.

Services will be private.