Dan "Gator" Hauser, age 80, of Overland Park, Kansas passed away on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. Dan was born September 14,1944 to Norman and Louise Hauser in Kansas City, Kansas. A visitation will be held Tuesday, July 29, 2025 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM at McGilley & Hoge Johnson County Memorial Chapel, 8024 Santa Fe Drive, Overland Park, Kansas 66204. The funeral service will follow at 11:00 AM at the funeral home. Burial in Forest Hill & Calvary Cemetery, 6901 Troost Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64131.
Dan attended Pittsburg State University, where he met his later to be wife, Carol Anne Sprinkle.
A founding member of Beta Chi, which later became Lambda Chi, he was able to create a brotherhood for eternity.
After graduating with a bachelors in civil engineering, Dan and Carol married in 1972 and shortly after Carol became known as CASH, the initials of her first middle maiden and married name.
The pair was inseparable and traveled the nation visiting historic sites, museums, aviation museums, parks, Vegas, Indian reservations, they loved living life together, learning and experiencing all that life had to offer.
They loved to entertain at their home hosting parties, game nights and jamming out to the greats, Willie Nelson, Simon and Garfunkel and so many more.
The unfortunate passing of CASH in 2007 was a devastating loss to all and most of all Dan.
Without CASH there was no light in Dan’s world until the year after when he joined The Heart of America Wing with The Commemorative Airforce. This ignited the flame back into Dan’s life.
Ever since the initial taste of what the organization represents and the unbreakable kinship, support and connection between the volunteers at the Wing, uncle Dan had a sense of purpose again and a place that felt like home.
With routine social events with his two prized groups The Wing and his fraternity brothers, his personal training sessions, taking his Mini Cooper for a full detail and visiting CASH’s grave regularly, Dan lived a full life, his way, unapologetically and I hope we can all see the value in living a full life and using up every last drop. Life is not a dress rehearsal, make every second and ever moment count.
