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Mrs. Anna K. Langel

(Times Herald News Service)

  Templeton - Mrs. Anna K. Langel, 73, of Templeton succumbed to a short illness at 4:45 p.m. Saturday at St. Anthony Hospital. She had entered the hospital the day before Christmas.
  Funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Sacred Heart Church here. The Rev. William Buchholz will offer requiem mass.
  Burial will be beside her husband in Sacred Heart Cemetery. Grandsons will be pallbearers: Norbert Bauer, Edmund Bauer, Gerald Langel, Robert Schlichte, Glenn Rupiper and Larry Dopheide.
  The body was returned Monday morning from the Ohde Funeral Home at Manning to the family residence, where the rosary will be prayed at 8 p.m. Monday. Mrs. Langel, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Fangman, was born Anna Fangman on a farm near Arcadia Nov 13, 1880. A lifelong resident of Carroll County, she attended Sacred Heart School at Templeton.
  Her marriage to Clem Langel took place June 15, 1897, at Sacred Heart Church here, with Rev. Fr. Schulte officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Langel established their home on their farm one and one-half miles south of Templeton on Highway 71, which is the present home. Mr. Langel died Jan. 5, 1940.
  Mrs. Langel leaves the following children: Henry, Templeton; Mrs. Conrad (Clara) Bauer, Carroll; Adolph and Joe Langel, Templeton; Mrs. John (Mary) Bauer, Halbur; Mrs. Ed (Regina) Schlichte, Manning; Mrs. Albert (Hildegarde) Rupiper, Templeton; Edward Langel, Mrs. Louis (Kathryn) Dopheide, Justina and Vincent Langel, Mrs. LaVerne (Margaret) Murray, and Simon and Theodore Langel, Templeton; 39 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
 Also surviving are one brother, Joe Fangman, Templeton, and four sisters, Rose Fangman, Mrs. Ed (Mary) Kalkhoff, and Mrs. Raymond (Margaret) Weslager, Templeton, and Mrs. Henry (Kathryn) Kalkhoff, Clements, Minn.
  Two daughters, are deceased. Anna died in 1932 and Beatrice in infancy. Two brothers and one sister, Henry and Frank Fangman and Mrs. Ben (Elizabeth) Lechtenberg, also preceded Mrs. Langel in death.
  She was a member of Sacred Heart Church and the Christian Mothers Sodality of the parish.
(Carroll Daily Times Herald, Iowa, Monday, January 4, 1954, p. 7)

Mrs. Anna K. Langel

(Times Herald News Service)

  Templeton - Sacred Heart Church here was filled to overflowing at funeral rites Tuesday morning for Mrs. Anna K. Langel, widow of Clem Langel. Mrs. Langel, 73, died Saturday afternoon at St. Anthony Hospital in Carroll.
  The Rev. William F. Buchholz read requiem high mass at 9:30 a.m. Mass servers were grandsons of Mrs. Langel: Merle Langel, Dennis Langel and Orval Schlichte. Pallbearers, also grandsons, were Norbert Bauer, Edmund Bauer, Robert Schlichte, Glenn Rupiper, Larry Dopheide and Gerald Langel.
  Burial was beside her husband in Sacred Heart Cemetery.
  Relatives attending from a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kalkhoff, and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Kalkhoff, Clements, Minn.; Mrs. Henry Fangmann, Arnold Fangmann and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Fangmann, Redwood Falls, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hanslick, Lafayette, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Francis Goblirsch, Wabasso, Minn.; Frank Langel and Mr. and Mrs. Clem Langel, New Vienna; Mrs. John Langel, Dyersville; Mr. and Mrs. Tony Weber, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Osterhaus and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wegmann, Bloomington, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Wegmann, Manchester; Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Wegmann, Petersburg; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wegmann, Greeley; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Langel, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ortmann, Joe Langel and Joe Rolfes, LeMars.
  Mr. and Mrs. John Harpenau, Remsen; Mrs. John Wente, Farley; Mrs. James Girouex, and Hugo Langel, New Vienna; Vitus Langel, Dyersville; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Heims, Worthington; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Berns, St. Olaf; Mr. and Mrs. John Reiman and Mrs. Joe Sporrer, Milford; Mr. and Mrs. August Lansing, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fangmann and Clara and Henry Hellmann, Bancroft; Mr. and Mrs. Vic Langel, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Langel, Cliff Langel, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Langel, Don Langel and Mary Ellen Weiderholt, LeMars; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Langel, Remsen; Clarence Langel, Alton and Lawrence Ney, Granville.
  Many relatives and friends from surrounding towns were also present.
(Carroll Daily Times Herald, Iowa, Friday, January 8, 1954, p. 5)

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