Adaline Lois Langland

Monday, July 15, 2019 6:33 pm

Adaline Lois Langland, 90, of Waukon, died Sunday, June 30, 2019, at Good Samaritan Center in Waukon. Memorial services are Saturday, July 20, at 11 a.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Waukon, with Pastor Wayne Ellingson officiating. Burial is in Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, in Spring Grove, Minn. Friends may call from 10 a.m. until time of services on Saturday at the church. Martin Funeral Home in Waukon is handling arrangements.

Adaline Lois Langland was born Aug. 16, 1928, in Spring Grove, Minn., the daughter of Nels and Sarah (Bidne) Nesheim. She was baptized and confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church in Spring Grove and graduated from Spring Grove High School in 1946. She married Charles Edgar Hille Langland at Trinity Lutheran Church in Spring Grove Aug. 25, 1946. Lois was a great seamstress, designing many wedding dresses at Fabric Chalet, and one of the best lefse bakers in the area as her lefse hardly ever had any big brown spots.

She was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Waukon, where she was active in the ladies’ groups and altar guild. Lois also was active in Civic Club and the Veterans Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, a volunteer at Makee Manor, and served as treasurer for the Iowa River Cemetery for 30 years. She enjoyed needlework and quilting, playing the organ, reading and her 5 o’clock wine. She collected over 400 turtles, earning the nickname “Grandma Turtle” from her grandchildren. Lois also loved spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren.

Survivors include her children: David (Beverly Harrelson) Langland of Las Cruces, N.M., Constance (Joseph) Witkowski of LaGrange Park, Ill., Linda Langland and Chuck Langland, both of Decorah, Bruce Langland of Prairie du Chien, Wis. and Joan (Sam) Howard of Knoxville, Tenn.; three grandchildren: Charles and Edward Witkowski and Laura Howard; one great-grandchild, Torri Langland; one brother, Gordon Roland Nesheim; and brothers and sisters-in-law: Gordon (Kathy) Nesheim, Walter (Adeline) Langland, Ione Nesheim and Evelyn Langland.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Charles, who died in 1989; a grandson Eric Langland; two sisters, Marian Nesheim and Eleanor Takaichi; and two brothers, Norwin and Donald Nesheim.

Online condolences may be left at martinfunerals.com.