Robert Drewes Langmann died on June 27, 2007 after a long, courageous battle with cancer.
Born on April 3, 1929, in New York City, he attended the Allen Stevenson School and the Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Harvard College in 1952 and from Columbia University Medical School. Dr. Langmann completed his Internship and Internal Medicine Residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and at Hartford Hospital. After which, he served two and a half years as a United States Army Medical Officer at Fort Knox, Kentucky and Stuttgart, Germany. He practiced Internal Medicine in Farmington and Hartford, Connecticut, from 1962 to 1999 and was on the Senior Medical Staff at Hartford Hospital when he retired and moved to Stonington, Ct. He served as a volunteer physician at the South Park Inn, in Hartford, helping both the residents at the homeless shelter and also guiding the medical students treating them.
Dr. Langmann served on the Boards of the Stonington Historical Society, the Stonington Undergrounding Initiative For Utilities, the Stonington Village Improvement Association and the Wadawanuck Club. He was on the Inland Wetlands Commission and volunteered at both the Dennison Pequotsepos Nature Center and the Denison House. He sang in the choir at The First Church of Christ Congregational in Farmington for twenty years, and later with The Stonington Choral Society.
Always the outdoorsman and athlete, he played soccer for both Exeter and Harvard. He enjoyed playing tennis, biking, hiking, mountain climbing, canoeing, and small boat sailing. Bob traveled extensively, but was especially happy spending time with his family at his home in the Adirondacks, a place where his family had summered since the 1880's.
He was part of a medical tradition. Both his father and grandfather were practicing physicians. He was the grandson of Gustav and Katherine Langmann and the son of Margot and Alfred Langmann. He is survived by his wife, Saren Langmann, two sons, Vince Langmann and wife Birgit of Portland, Oregon and William Langmann and wife Kelley, of Monterey, California and three grandchildren, Jasmine, Sophia and William. He is also survived by three step children, Sarael Sargent and husband Tom of West Hartford, Ct., Cooper Toulmin and wife Katie, of Lexington, Mass. and Chaffe Toulmin and wife Julie of Newton Highlands, Mass., seven step grandchildren, Elizabeth, William and Christopher, Henry and Zoe, and Hugh and Hans, a sister, Elizabeth Joseph, in Greenfield, Mass. and a brother, John Langmann, in Sarasota, Fla.
He was a member of The Wadawanuck Club, The Stonington Harbor Yacht Club, The Ausable Club, The Hartford Golf Club and The Farmington Field Club. Donations in his memory in lieu of flowers may be made to The Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center Inc., PO Box 122, Mystic, Ct. 06355 and The Stonington Village Improvement Society, attention Undergrounding Initiative, PO Box 18, Stonington, Ct. 06378.
A Memorial Service will be held at Calvary Episcopal Church, 27 Church St., Stonington, Ct. on Saturday, July 7th at 11:00 AM.
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