Joseph LANGNER was born 26 Feb 1894, a son of John LANGNER and Maryanna (MICHALAK) LANGNER.
Joe
and Lottie DOLECKI were married 12
Jun 1920, in Cicero, Cook County, Illinois. They had one child, a son,
Herbert
(1923).
Joe was a witness when brother-in-law John PIASECKI applied for citizenship. Joe's address was 5046 W. 29th Place, Cicero. Citizenship was granted to John in 1923.
In 1929, Joseph LANGNER became a Mason of Cicero Lodge No. 955. A. F.& A. M. was located on Austin Blvd. in Cicero, Cook County, Illinois.
“I remember going with my father to see the
Graf Zepplin in 1929 when it made the World Tour. It happened to come right
over the CB&Q tracks, heading into Chicago. My Dad took me out to see it as
it was flying over head.
"In that time, everyone would even run out
anytime an airplane would go over. Cicero was practically cut in half by
Route 66 (Ogden Avenue) and the railroad tracks. CB&Q had their big
switching yards there. The passenger lines were in the middle. And, the
Zeffer would come by at four o’clock going 60 mph. Everyone would run out to
the CB&Q. We would walk over the bridge that went over the railroad yard.
“That bridge at one time went over the Mississippi River and then they
moved it by the Hawthorne Community Center in Cicero. (In the fifties they
would used it for soapbox derbies.) They had trouble paving, paving, and
repaving that bridge. The bridge was a rickety thing. If you would be
walking across the bridge and a train wàuld come by, you would have to stop
or run fast to get across and either way you would get all full of smoke.
The smoke would come through the large cracks between the wooden boards.”
[*HJL]
“My
Dad didn’t make wine. He liked beer. He had a two-level bench with the crock
sitting up on top in our long pantry. That was where the beer would be
brewed. I remember being small he let me work the bottle capper. After the
beer was brewed it was poured into the bottles and capped. You had to be
very careful how you capped it. As much as a week later, in the middle of
the night, sometimes you would hear a big boom or more. That was when a
bottle, or two or three, filled up with too much pressure and would
explode.” [*HJL]
“My real Dad died in January 2, 1930. He was only 35 years old. I was about six years old. We lived on the second floor of a building. On the first floor was a barber shop up front with his flat in the back.” [*HJL]
“He worked as a carpenter at Morton High School. The week he died the Mortonium, the school’s weekly newspaper, put out a front page article about him.” [*HJL]
“My father got pnuemonia. If they had developed antibiotics by then he never would have died. The pnuemonia developed into a kidney problem and died of uririmic poisioning. He was only 35 years old when he died.” [*HJL]
Joseph LANGNER was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois.
[*HJL Herbert Joseph Langner]
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