Larry Charles Langston '61 |
Larry Charles Langston passed away December 23, 2022 after a string of serious illnesses that crippled him for decades. Born in Dallas January 6. 1943, he was the only child of Dr. William G. Langston, an obstetrician, and his wife Faye Nichols, a registered nurse from Oklahoma. Larry Langston was a fifth-generation Texan whose ancestors settled in Garrison before the Civil War. He graduated from Jesuit College Preparatory School and earned two degrees from the University of Dallas. Langston served in the US Navy for six years, spending two of them on active duty in the Far East during the Vietnam War. He was a navigator on the USS Ajax, a repair ship home-ported in Sasebo, on the island of Kyushu, Japan. Mr. Langston was a counselor for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Dallas, where he helped former servicemen and their families. He retired in his mid-fifties on account of ill health, and moved to Lewisville. At the time of his death he was a member of St. Ann Catholic Parish in Coppell and was grateful to the Eucharistic ministers who visited him weekly. Larry Langston is survived by his wife, Dr. Alexandra Wilhelmsen, a retired university professor, cousins in Oklahoma (Norman), kinfolk in Texas (Garrison, Houston, Austin), and by his sisters-in-law Dr. Elizabeth C. Wilhelmsen, a retired university professor in Springtown, Texas, and Francesca J. Wilhelmsen, a retired high school teacher who spends part of the year in Avila. Spain. Rosary, funeral Mass, and interment January 4, 10:30 am at Calvary Hill. 3235 Lombardy Lane, Dallas. Fr. James J. Lehrberger, O. Cist. and Fr. Robert E. Maguire, O. Cist., celebrants. |