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ALEX D. LANGHAM
MOBILE, Ala.—Funeral services for Alex Drew Langham, 53, of Mobile, were held Feb. 17 from the chapel of Johnson-Quimby-Norris Funeral Home with the Rev. C. W. Whitten officiating. Burial was in Bay Minette Cemetery. Langham died Feb. 16 at the USA Medical Center in Mobile. He was employed as a radiator repairman and was a native of Bay Minette.

Survivors include his widow, Irene McConnell Langham of Mobile; two daughters, Mrs. Nicholas E. Howard of Mobile and June Rucker of Montgomery; a son Kenneth Drew Langham of Dallas, Tex.; four brothers, Lee Langham, Lloyd Langham, Billy Langham and Tommy Langham, all of Bay Minette, and six sisters, Pauline Sanders and Thelma Little of Bay Minette, Deanie Hermann of Mobile, Bobbie Dunn of Spanish Fort, Betty Doss of Atlanta, Ga., and Sheron Johnson of Fairhope. Funeral services were directed by Johnson-Quimby-Norris funeral Home in Bay Minette.

[Published Thursday, March 3, 1977, Baldwin Edition of Mobile Register, Mobile, Alabama Page 9 ]


[courtesy of Patricia Dunbar]


Grave marker for Alex Drew Langham, in Bay Minette Cemetery, Bay Minette (Baldwin) county, Alabama.

Alex enlisted in the Army at Fort McClellan, AL on 2 February 1943 in enlisted at Allentown, PA and after completing jump school he was assigned to Company F, 508th on March 2, 1944 when the regiment was still at Camp Cromore, Portstewart, Ireland.

He fought in the Normandy and Holland campaigns and then completed Pathfinder school in December 1944.  That skill was never used as the 508th went into the Battle of Bulge via trucks rather than aircraft.

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