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Peter Allen “Pete” Langdorf

Birth	:	14 Aug 1928 Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
Death	:	7 Oct 2014 Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA
Burial	:	Eastern Montana State Veterans Cemetery, Miles City, Custer County, USA
Coordinate	:	46.3807564, -105.8246536
Plot	:	Block B Row 9 Lot 6
Description	:	Peter Alan “Pete” was born in Helena, Montana on August 14, 1928, the son of George William Langdorf and Ethel Laura Pratt Langdorf. Pete went to grade school and graduated from Helena High School in June of 1946. He went on to Montana State College where he studied Civil Engineering. After 2 years of trying to get the tunnel out of the mountain he took his dad’s advice and applied for work with Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company. He started working in Helena, then Wolf Creek, back to Helena, then to Elliston, Lewistown,... Read More	Peter Alan “Pete” was born in Helena, Montana on August 14, 1928, the son of George William Langdorf and Ethel Laura Pratt Langdorf. Pete went to grade school and graduated from Helena High School in June of 1946. He went on to Montana State College where he studied Civil Engineering. After 2 years of trying to get the tunnel out of the mountain he took his dad’s advice and applied for work with Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company. He started working in Helena, then Wolf Creek, back to Helena, then to Elliston, Lewistown, Whitehall, Dillon, Butte and in the spring of 1950 to Miles City, Montana. There he met a beautiful young lady by the name of Lelia Mae Kvammen. “Lee” was working for the telephone company as a service representative. They became engaged and had planned a large church wedding for the spring of 1951. Then came the greeting from President Harry Truman, Pete was to report to Butte, Montana for induction. They had found each other and the Korean War was about to break this out, so they decided to get marr1ed on November 5th, and after a short honeymoon to Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, they moved to Helena, Montana waiting for orders from the Army. Pete was inducted into the Army in December of 1950 in Butte, Montana. Lee elected to stay in Helena until Pete finished his basic training. In June of 1951 she joined him in Tacoma. In December 1951, Pete was shipped out to Japan. He took training in chemical biological and radiological warfare at Camp Gifu Japan (Gifu was a Japanese Kamikaze Training Base) after this training he was shipped out to Korea and was attached to the 25th division and assigned to Battery C 90th Field Artillery a 155 outfit. Peter August Langdorf was born June 7th, 1952 at Madigan Army Hospital. Pete Sr. returned from Korea in August of 1952 and held his son for the first time. Following his honorable discharge from the Army in September of 1952, the family purchased a 30’ Spartan Trailer that was their home for the next 5 years. Pete resumed working for the telephone company as a central office equipment installer. In the spring of 1955, Pete was offered a located job in Livingston, Montana. In 1959, the family moved to Miles City, Montana where Pete became first a foreman, then supervising foreman and then manager of the Miles City exchange for the next 20 years. Their daughter Judith Jean was born on July 22, 1966. They always kidded Pete and Lee about the 14 years between their two children. “Family planning” was one of their answers. In January of 1981 with the re-organization of the telephone company Pete was forced to retire with over 33 years of service. Pete tried several jobs around Miles City, first as a traveling salesman for Roundup Powder Company, then as a clerk for the Coast to Coast Store in the appliance department. The family then opened their own phone store (The Phone People) selling and installing telephone equipment. In 1984, Lee and Pete were offered jobs working for Rasco Supply Company in Lihue, Hawaii. After five years working in paradise, Pete and Lee moved back to the mainland settling in Denver, Colorado, to be near the kids. Pete kept busy working on their apartment building and helping the kids, and Lee worked as a leasing agent and professional grandmother until she passed away after a battle with cancer on December 24, 1999. Pete stayed in Denver for a while then moved back to the family home in Miles City where he kept busy working as a volunteer for the Range Riders Museum, the Miles City Kiwanis Club and the First Lutheran Church. In the spring of 2003, Pete met Marion Rose Stickney and they were married at the First Lutheran Church in Miles City on May 15, 2004. They loved to fish, golf, bowl, dance and travel. They took trips to Germany, the Canad1an Rockies, Branson, Missouri, the US open golf championship in Pine Hurst, North Carolina, Myrtle Beach, Hawaii and the Fanning Islands, Niagara Falls and numerous trips to see her kids and grandkids and Pete’s kids and grandkids. Marion died on April 5, 2010. Visitation will be held on Sunday, October 26, 2014 at Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home with family receiving friends from 4:00-6:00 p.m. Funeral services will be held on Monday, October 27, 2014 at 11:00 at the First Lutheran Church in Miles City. Interment will follow in the Eastern Montana State Veteran’s Cemetery with full military honors. Those desiring to make a memorial, please send it either to the Range Riders Museum or to the First L Stevenson and sons funeral home

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Peter Allen “Pete” Langdorf's memorial is located at: Eastern Montana State Veterans Cemetery, Miles City, Custer County, USA.
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Peter Allen “Pete” Langdorf death on 7 Oct 2014 in Miles City, Custer County, Montana, USA
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Latitude: 46.3807564
Longitude: -105.8246536

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Marion Rose Reichenberg Langdorf

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