Langstaff, Jack ¹⁰⁴

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From the website http://www.langstaff.net/Family_Tree/p4.htm#i152

Jack Langstaff (M)
b. 14 April 1901, d. 14 September 1960

Jack Langstaff was Fact 1; A story told by Lorraine:
Once when Dad's model T saw machine stopped workoing, she was sent (via foot) across to Spooner for materials so he could rebabbit the connecting rods. When she returned she was to help Dad on the condition that he not swear. So for the entire job it was in and out of the house when he swore and then promised not to do it again. Dad never really swore except when working. Then he could also put the blame for mistakes on the helper.

From Ruth Boiseneault:
Apparently one of Jacks Fathers brothers was a Boston Physician who had a considerable fortune. His wife was supposedly living off the proceeds and on her death the money was to be spread amoung the neices and nephews. There was supposedly aletter to this effect, but nothing ever came of the money. It would be interesting to know which of Allen john's brothers it was and if he really did move to Boston as a doctor.

From Lorraine:
When Lorraine was born, Dad was working in the CN shops in Rainy River. The year he became a fireman is not known, but until the 40's he did not get many trips in. In the summer he guided at Lake of the Woods Lodge, and in winter sawed wood around town with his old Model T.
In Jan. of 1941 he took us all to Montreal for 6 months (Jan. to June). He worked mainly on the switch engine in the yards loading munitions and war supplies. We lived on Dorchester St., just off St. Catherines. (Picture of Dad and Fred LaRouque taken at this time in Montreal.
Lorraine was working in a munitions factory at this time as well. One day on her way home she bought me (Jacky) a hardwood high chair from a man on the street. In order to get it home he carried it for her the 12 blocks home.


From Jack:
On the helper subject, I remember helping change a window and having to bevel one end. Dad sawed the bevel backwards and really got mad at me for allowing him to do it. I guess I was supposed to follow everything he did to the letter.

Dad loved his Captain Morgan's Dark Rum with a little warm water. He was some mad when Panetta insisted on carrying in a new bottle one day and dropped it on out concrete front step. I broke and you could almost hear my Father cry. But money was never to plentiful in our household and that bottle probably represented a goodly amount of my Dad's available cash.

Lorraine gave me a copy of Jack and Kathern's wedding certificate, and it showed they were married in the Anglican Church. I guess his Mother was a strong person to have accomplished this. But Lorraine assured me that Uncle Bert and Aunt Floerence, who stood up for Jack and Kathern, had the wedding blessed by a Father Bertrand in the R.C. Church later . Dad and Dorothea did raise the first four of us as good Catholic kids, even though Pat and Ken did eventually stray.
Jack Langstaff was born on 14 April 1901, at, ; Panetta says April 19, I901, from Sask. Medical Aid Certificate. He was the son of Allan John Langstaff and Mary Anne Johnston .
Jack Langstaff married Kathern Lucile "Flinn" Flynn , daughter of Patrick Henry "Flinn" Flynn and Mary C. Kelly , on 20 July 1920, at St. James Anglican Church, , , Can; Priest in charge was F.C. Swiet, and the witnesses were Albert J. Langstaff (brother) and his wife Florence (Aunt Flo).
The original of the marriage certificate is in the possession of Lorraine Dryden (as of 1999).¹
Jack Langstaff was He eventually became a fireman, but all through the 1930's work was very scarce and he spent the summers guiding at lake of the Woods Lodge and in the winter sawing wood with his rig made from an old Model T Ford. Hav a photo of that machine with one of his helpers, Sam Earnst. Lorraine helped dad keep the enjine running by running to Baudette for parts. But she made him promise to stop swearing or she would quit helping. She was religious even then. In 1923, at labourer in the C.N.R. shops, , .²
Jack Langstaff married Vivian Dorothea Krienke, daughter of Edward Arthur Krienke and Emma Augusta Sprenger , on 1 July 1939, at, Rainy River, ; Henry and Beatrice Krienke were the best man and brides-maid for the wedding.
Adolph Gunderson, who disliked Dad, claims that Dorothy and Dad were having an affair before kathern died. When he told this he was drunk at the time.
Freeman says he knew nothing of this affair.
Gertie Gunderson claims Kathern was in bad health for a number of years, possibly TB.

There was another attempt to get Dorothy to marry Adolph Scheirer. It happened on crowe Ave. in FF, and Emma, Karl (who), Eleanora Sprenger geb Kitsch were all there with a minister and when Mom found what was being attempted she left. But she certainly was seeing Adolph as pictures show.
Jack Langstaff Dad went to Montreal to work on the switch enjine shunting munitions and supplies at the Montreal Docks. We were there only from Jan. to June.

Lorraine remembers buying a hardwood high-chair from a man on the street on her way home from her job in a munitions factory. To make the sale, the man carried the chair 12 blocks home for her. Between January 1941 and June 1941, at Dorchester St., just of St. Catherine St., , .²
Jack Langstaff lived on 16 June 1942, at 101 River Ave., , ; 21 November 1962, Lorraine as Vivian Dorothea's executor sold the house to William E. lavendure for $25000 on 8 January 1963.

16 June 1942 John Langstaff purchased the home for the sum of $400 from Marjorie Bingham.

10 July 1941 title changed to executrix of the estate of Seargent Campbell, namely Marjorie Bingham

10 July 1929, John Quick and his Margaret sold the mortgage and the land to George W. Campbell for $100 and the incumbrance sum of $300.

8 July 1927 Malcolm McRitchie and wife Nora Jane sold to George W. Campbell for the sum of $300.

8 September 1920, John Quick and his wife Margaret bought the home from Malcolm McRitchie for the sum of $1200. Seems he did not pay in full and the house was repossed but they still had part.

2July 1904 Malcolm McRitchie and his wife Nora Jane sold to Donald Robertson for $750.

29February 1904 Donald Robertson buys propert from John Mcguire and his wife Laura for $750.

26 November 1898 original patent given to John McGuire, clergyman from B.C. for $150 from the Crown.
The land was lot 11 in block 15 as shown in the plan of the Twp. of Atwood.³
Jack Langstaff was 5'10" tall and 119 lbs in 1960.
Jack Langstaff died on 14 September 1960, at his cottage, Budreau's Camp on Lake of the Woods, , Rainy River, ,, Dad had come to Fort Frances the day before to pick me up from my summer job with the Ministry of Natural Resources (towerman, Wattan tower on Grassy Narrows Bay, Rainy Lake) and he Mom and I had gone to the cottage for a couple of days before I had to leave for school (Queen's for 2nd year).
Dad wanted me to stucco the boards around the base of the cottage. I learned to do this working for a local builder named Bert Russell. I was almost done when Dad said he was going in for a short nap and when I was finished and cleaned up we all would go fishing for the late afternnon, evening.
I was outside near the room he was sleeping in and I heard the funny sound he mae quickly followed by a scream from my Mother. Mother had lots of experience as a mid-wife nurse (no actual training, just work experience i the 1930's where no one else was available to assit the Dr. in Fort Frances) and she knew what was taking place.
By the time I ran around and into the cottage, about 20second, she was checking his pulse and breathing and it was clear he was dead. Mother claimed the sound he made as known in the old days as the "death rattle".
We cleaned up and drove to twon, removed most of the money from the joint account to mine at the bank and then notified the authourities of his death.
The bank bit seems strange, but Mom was always very money conscious, and the 60 mile drive back to town gave us lots of time to think of how the future would play and since we knew little of banking regulations it seemed a reasonable precaution to insure she would have sufficent money to live on until the estate was settled and she would recieve a pension. (It should be noted here that after Dad's long service with the C.N.R. as a railway engineer his pension when divided by 2 for the survivor amounted to the princely sum of $86 per month, which was only paid to Mom for two years before she died and then for the next 8 years each of us six kids recieved 2 months pension as it was payable for a minimum of ten years. Not a lot, but I can say Fran and I were alays extremely happy for our little yearly windfall. It boggles the mind, how Mom would have lived if she had survived to 75 years old, i.e. circa 1990s, on $86 per month.).⁴
Jack Langstaff was buried on 17 September 1960, at Forest Lawn Cemetery, , .⁵

Children of Jack Langstaff and Kathern Lucile "Flinn" Flynn
Mary Lorraine Langstaff + b. 14 Sep 1923, d. 6 May 2006
Kenneth James Langstaff + (living)
Patrick Gerald Langstaff + b. 21 May 1933, d. 26 Feb 2003
Colleen Lucille Langstaff + (living)

Children of Jack Langstaff and Vivian Dorothea Krienke
Edward Jack Langstaff + (living)
Panetta Dorothea Ruth Langstaff + (living)

Jack married Vivian Dorothea Krienke, daughter of Edward Arthur Krienke and Emma Augusta Sprenger, jul1 1939 in Rainy River District, Ontario, Canada.¹⁰⁴ (Vivian Dorothea Krienke was born November 20, 1912 in Webb, Saskatchewan, Canada,¹⁰⁵ died September 23, 1962 in Fort Frances, Ontario, Canada ¹⁰⁵ and was buried in Fort Frances, Ontario, Canada - Forest Lawn Cemetery ¹⁰⁵.)