Obituary of Alice A. Langer

Alice Ann Langer, 82, of White Bear Lake passed away on Sunday, June 7, 2015 at her home surrounded by loving family. She was born March 8, 1933 at home on McKinley St. in SE Minneapolis to Walter and Frances (Fremouw) Maas. She attended St. Charles Borromeo School and graduated from St. Margaret’s Academy in 1951. As a teenager Alice worked at her father’s grocery store at 2540 Central Ave. NE, Minneapolis where she learned to always balance her cash drawer! After graduation from high school she worked as a cashier at Powers Department Store, moved to Denver, CO and worked as a cashier and office clerk. Returning to Minnesota she worked as a cashier at Perines bookstore at the U of M campus, as a bookkeeper at Golden Age Nursing Home and in 1973 with Jerry Beach opened Forestland Nurseries in Forest Lake. In 1983 she followed her other passion and received her diploma from travel school and worked at Complete Travel. She loved to travel and has been to all 50 states, Canada and Mexico. Retiring in 1989 Alice and George lived on Pokegama Lake in Pine City where she was very involved with the lake association, enjoyed fishing on their pontoon, swimming, having the family up and enjoyed many friends there. In 2005 Alice and George moved to Cambridge, then with the diagnosis of cancer moved to The Lodge in White Bear Lake. Alice always loved her family, she was the peacemaker and was gracious to the end. She was preceded in death by her parents, sisters Rosemary, Mary Emily and Irene, brother George and son Charles Beach. Alice is survived by husband George Langer, daughter Carol (Dave) Urban, daughter-in-law Terry Beach, step children Julie (Scott) Campbell, Debbie (Paul) Swanson, Gordon (Vicki) Langer, Mary (Bruce) Lemay, and Joe Langer, 14 grandchildren, 8 great grandchildren, sisters Jean Ward, Maria O’Dell and Gloria Maas, brothers Frank & Walter Maas, as well as many nieces and nephews.