Langfelder was born in 1926 in Austria, the son of a Jewish father and a Lutheran mother. In 1939, shortly after Adolf Hitler's invasion of Austria, the family fled to Switzerland, moving to the United States and settling in Springfield in 1940. Langfelder served in the United States Army from 1945 to 1946. He married Mary "Midge" Dunham in 1952; the couple would have 13 children. One of them, Jim, would be elected mayor of Springfield in 2015. Another, Josh, would be elected Sangamon County Recorder in 2008.[4] Langfelder died in 2015 at the age of 89, six months after his son Jim was elected mayor.
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^ abSchoenburg, Bernard. "Former Springfield mayor, friend, father: Ossie Langfelder's 'storied life' remembered". The State Journal-Register. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
^"Springfield officials request flags lowered in honor of former mayor's passing". Retrieved October 21, 2015.
^Beck, Molly. "Ossie Langfelder transforms a lifetime of memories into a book". The State Journal-Register. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
^"Sangamon County Election Results". www.sangamoncountyclerk.com. Retrieved Jan 30, 2020.
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