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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