Obit: Langfeldt, John "Henry" (1880 - 1969)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
 

----Source: from an undated clipping from the Marshfield News-Herald, Marshfield, WI

LOYAL-  Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church for John Henry Langfeldt, 89, of Loyal, who died Saturday at   Neillsville Memorial Hospital following a lingering illness.

The Rev. William Humlie, pastor, will officiate and burial will be made in the Greenwood cemetery.  Friends may call at the Roycraft Funeral Home in Loyal.

Mr. Langfeldt was born Aug. 29, 1880, in Germany and came to the United States at the age of 2 with his parents.  The family settled in Iowa.

He was married at Davenport, Iowa, on Nov. 29, 1905, to Marie Gelhaar, who preceded him in death in 1926. His second marriage took place June 26, 1929, to Louise Esbach.

Mr. Langfeldt came to the town of Beaver in (printed date scratched out and corrected with 1912) and operated a farm there until retiring in 1949, at which time he moved into Loyal.  (The farm the Langfeldts bought was in Section 10 in the Town of Beaver, along what is now Pelsdorf Avenue.)

He had served as director of the Clark County Electric Cooperative at Greenwood from 1938 to 1947, and also was a past director of the Federal Land Bank, past member of the Oak Grove School board, a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, and of its Lutheran Botherhood Organization.  (According to his granddaughter, Zada Bloom, he also worked for a time on the Foster & Northeastern Railroad between Shilling and Owen..  Henry would be gone during the  week, and then on Friday evening, his wife would hitch up horse and buggy and load up the children to go Coxie to meet the train and bring her husband back home to the farm.  On Sunday evening the family would load up again to take Mr. Langfeldt back to Coxie to work on the railroad  for another week. )

 Survivors include his wife; six children, Mrs. Leonard (Leona) Schmidt, Phillips; Max Langfeldt, Loyal; Edwin Langfeldt, Racine; Clarence Langfeldt, Wausau; Mrs. Ulysses (Elsie ) Cain, Loyal; Mrs. Kenneth (Janice) Vollrath, Greenwood; five stepchildren, Lester Hatchkiss, Wausau, Mrs. John (Violet) Esram, New Brighton, Minn.; Mrs. Albert (Carmen) Novak, Owen; Mrs. Myron (Dorothy) Schank, Duluth, Minn.; and Mrs. Edward (Mavis) Raata, Unity; 50 grandchildren; 70 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild; a brother, Fred Langfeldt, Downey, Calif.; and a sister, Mrs. William Wiechman, Venice, Calif.
He was also preceded in death by a son and a daughter, four sisters and two brothers.

Service Are Held For John Langfeldt
from the Marshfield News-Herald

LOYAL- Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church for John Langfeldt, 89, who died Saturday.  The Rev. William Humlie, pastor, officiated and burial was made in the Greenwood cemetery.
Pallbearers were Randy Vollrath, Robert Langfeldt, Guy Langfeldt, Wesley Johnson, Lester Blom and Charles Zierer.

Mrs. Verland Dux and Mrs. Erwin Noeldner sang "I’m But a Stranger Here" and "Lead on O King Eternal".  Mrs. (named crossed out and correction written in) Olsen accompanied at the organ.

Family Portrait of John & Marie Langfeldt

John Henry Langfeldt & Family

From left to right: Marie (Gilhaar) Langfeldt holding son Clarence Langfeldt; Leona Langfeldt (with the sailor collar),

Max Langfeldt (seated on left), Edwin Langfeldt (on arm of the chair), and John Henry Landfeldt holding daughter Elsie Langfeldt.