Clare Langer

Mrs. Clare E. (Fitzgerald) Langer, 87, of 1 Berkshire Square, Adams, died on Thursday, January 22, 2015 at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. She was born in North Adams on February 15, 1927, a daughter of the late Joseph and Anna (Quinn) Fitzgerald. She attended schools in North Adams and graduated from Drury High School with the class of 1944. She then went on to receive her Bachelors in Education from Elms College in Chicopee in 1948. Mrs. Langer worked for many years as an Elementary School Teacher for the Adams-Cheshire Regional School District at C.T. Plunket Elementary School in Adams until retiring in 1985. Earlier she had taught at the former Mark Hopkins Elementary School in North Adams. She was a communicant of the Parish of St. John Paul II and had been a longtime communicant of the former St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Adams, where she had sang in the choir and had done the wreath making for the annual Christmas bazaar. She was a member of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and the National Education Association. In recent years she became a volunteer at the St. John Paul II Charity Center. Her husband, F. Raymond Langer, whom she married on October 12, 1950, died on November 15, 2010. She is survived by; 1 Son – Thomas Langer and his wife Andrea of Ashburn, VA, 2 Daughters – Anna Skorupski and her husband Edward of Stillwater, NY and Nora Curran and her husband Michael of Manchester, NH, 3 Grandchildren – Jessica Langer of Manchester, NH, Sara Curran of Sommerville, MA and Timothy Curran of Manchester, NH, Her Sister-in-Law – Eunice Langer of Adams and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her daughter, Sara F. Langer who died on January 28, 1983. Her brother, Joseph Fitzgerald and by her sister, Mary Vrabel. The funeral will be on Wednesday, January 28, at 10:00AM from the PACIOREK FUNERAL HOME, 13 Hoosac St., Adams, followed by a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 11:00AM in Notre Dame des Sept Douleurs Church, Adams, celebrated by Rev. Steven Montesanti, Pastor. Burial will follow in Bellevue Cemetery, Adams. Calling hours are Tuesday from 4:00PM to 7:00PM at the funeral home. Memorial donations may be made to the St. John Paul II Charity Center, PO Box 231, Adams, MA 01220 or to the American Cancer Society, 59 Bobala Rd., Holyoke, Massachusetts 01040.