Memorials

Margaret “Margo” Kaler Langohr, 97, died October 24, 2009, at her home for the last seventeen years, The Forest at Duke in Durham, North Carolina.
Margo was born October 27, 1911, in Columbia City to Walpole and Bertha Mossman Kaler. She attended Columbia City Schools and graduated from Wayne State University with her B.A. degree and received her M.F.A. from Columbia University.
In 1934, she married John Lewis Langohr and they eventually returned to Columbia City in 1947 where John practiced surgery at the Linvill Memorial Clinic until his death in 1969.

Margo, a born teacher, taught art for eight years in Ferndale, Michigan, and then studied at St. Francis College and Manchester College to qualify for teaching social studies. She taught at Marshall Memorial School in Columbia City from 1959 until 1974.
Margo was an artist and crafts woman. She studied watercolor painting in workshops all over the U.S. and in several foreign countries and won many prizes for her work. She taught watercolor classes and mentored many emerging watercolor artists in the Columbia City area.

She also created works in silver and copper enamels. Her love of jewelry and its crafting led her to collect and sell antique jewelry through her business "Past and Precious."
In Columbia City, Margo was a member of Coterie, Tri Kappa and Grace Lutheran Church.
Margo spent her time on earth appreciating beauty and inspiring others through her teaching and love of learning. Any of life's problems were always treated as opportunities to which she applied her creative spirit.
Margo's loved ones are relieved that she no longer must endure the trials of her many long years of dementia which she bore in the same loving and sweet manner she had always lived. We will miss her infectious love of life and will remember her years of devotion to her family, friends, students and community. We are so grateful to the residents and staff at The Forest at Duke who first welcomed her and then cared for her.
Margo was preceded in death by her husband, John, and her brothers and sisters-in -law William and Harriet Kaler and James and Shirley Kaler.

She is survived by her daughters and their husbands, Judy and Dwight Ebeling and Lucy and John Grant; and grandchildren Stacey and husband Jim McMahon; John Ebeling, Andrew and wife Rebecca Grant, Margaret Kaler Terry and husband Warren Terry; and great-grandchildren Griffin and Katie McMahon, Abby and Hudson Grant, Kaler and Davis Terry. She is also survived by sisters-in-law Jean and Kit Langohr and numerous nephews and nieces and their children.
A burial and celebration of her life is planned for August 7, 2010, in Columbia City, Indiana.
Those wishing to remember Margo may honor her with donations to The Forest at Duke Benevolent Fund, the Margaret Kaler Langohr Art Scholarship c/o Whitley County Community Foundation or the Whitley County Historical Society both in Columbia City, Indiana 46725.