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North Tonawanada NY Evening News - 2/14/1967

A lonely heart, having been
broken and mended many times,
iither shrinks with bitterness or
grows with understanding. When
"it grows large and loving, we
trail it a Valentine.
Mrs. Margaret Langbehn, a
former Tonawandan who lives in
Sanborn is a Valentine. Her
friends call her Peggy but today
-we are going to call her "Peg
O' My Heart."
The little 78-pound woman
spends all of her spare time
inaking baskets and jewel boxes
°from Christmas cards. Patients
5n DeGraff Memorial Hospital
and area nursing homes who
have had one of her little baskets
delivered to their room, are
seldom aware that the donor
fashioned them so painstakingly
with her arthritic hands.
"It's all I know how to do and
all I can afford," she says. "It's
so wonderful to be able to give
something to make others hap-
py. When I do, then I am happy
too.
° **I started making the baskets
43 years ago after a serious operation,
and I needed something
to do during a long convalescence,"
she said. "My husband,
-Hubert, helped me get started.
cutting a pattern and helping me
fit the pieces together. When my
health was better, I carried the
first 100 baskets to DeGraff Memorial
Hospital, walking from
E lm Wood Park, Tonawanda,
where we lived at the time. It
was a bitter, wintry day so I left
them at the desk and hospital
personnel distributed them. It's
a trip I have made many times
since.
"Later I included other hospitals
and nursing homes on my
list. I also have mailed hundreds
to individuals when I read
or heard about anyone incurably
HI In most cases, I receive no
thank-you at all but the lack of it
has never bothered me."
Nobody knows better than Peggy
what it means to be truly
alone in the world. Now 58 years
old, she doesn't know for sure
who she is. She can't recall anything
beyond her fifth birthday
when a Niagara Falls family
took her from an orphan's home
in Pennsylvania. All they knew
about her was her birth date.
The family called her Margaret
and kept her until shg was 13
years old. She then went to work
in a Buffalo Meat Packing Co.
rather than return to a home.
She went to school on Thursdays
in order to make her working
"legal" and studied typing so
that she could better herself.
She went to . South Carolina
when she was about 20, then to
Georgia and later to Florida,
working first as a waitress, then
for the government. In Florida,
she was married.
"I thought: Finally, there is
someone to care for me," she
said. But her husband went
blind and she worked to support
them. He later died and Peggy
was tossed out into the world
again.
During these years, she saved
her money and three times traveled
to the Pennsylvania capitol
to learn her identity. On the
third trip, personnel in the records
department said there were
13 girls bom Feb. 9, 1909 and 12
had been accounted for. 'Then
you must be ,"
they said. But she will never
really know.
After her husband's death, Peggy
returned to Buffalo. Here she
met and married Hubert Langbehn.
That was 20 years ago.
The couples married life has
been happy but it has been beset
by illness and hardship. They
never complain.
Last year, Mr. Langbehn had
a serious operation. Their finances
fell to a low ebb and they
moved to Sanborn. There they
rented a 150-year-old farm house
on Bridgeman Road. Farm animals
had been housed in the
cottage. Together the couple set
about cleaning it up and slowly
but surely, they are making it
livable. With a few bags of cement
they have begun to shore
up the foundation and pave the
walks. Peggy planted tomatoes
and vegetables to eat, and roses
around a dry well to make their
life more beautiful
They get their water from a
neighbor's well. Peggy has a
washing machine but no room in
the cottage for it, so she heats
the icy water, washes their clothing
in the bathtub and wrings
them with her aching hands.
Her husband whom she has
nicknamed "Bounce" works
nights in Buffab to avoid traffic.
If her hands don't pain too badly,
Peggy then gets her sewing
out and works'on her little baskets.
Each side of each basket,
though it may feature a cold
snow scene, will be shaped at the
top like a big heart.
If those who receive the baskets
look carefully, they can read
Peg's simple message: "I love
you. Be my Valentine."

Family/Spouse: LANGBEHN, Hubert. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hilton NY Record - 3/21/1957

Death came to Frank F. Zastrow.
81. of 7 East Avenue. Friday, March
15th.
He leaves his wife. Louisa Zastrow:
one daughter, Mrs. Margaret Lang-
behn of Tonawanda; two sons, Martin
A . of Rochester and Edward W. of
Hollywood Beach. Florida: four sisters,
Mrs. Freda Queiter and Mrs.
Lottie Wendt of Niagara Falls. Mrs.
Lena Ellman and Mrs. Emma Holland
of North Tonawanda; two grandchildren
and five great-grandchildren;
several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
at 11 a. m. in St. Paul's Lutheran
Church, the Rev. Theo. Kohlmeier officiating.
Burial was in Wurlitzer, N.
Y.

Frank + KAGE, Martha. Martha (daughter of KAGE, William Frederick and KOPPE, Henrietta L) was born in 1874 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 8/21/1923

August. Zastrow, 76 years old, died
today at noon-- at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Lena Ellman, 19 Philip
street. He is survived by four
daughters, Mrs. Ellman and Mrs. Era-
ma Holland, North Tonawanda and
Mrs. Freida Quester and Mrs. Char
lotte Wendt, Niagara Falls and four
sons H e r b e r t and Augustus Zastrow.
North Tonawanda, and Frank and Ot-
to Zastrow, Buffalo.

August married KINDERMANN, Amelia Emilie in 1874 in Prussia. Amelia was born on 14 May 1852 in Ploewen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; died on 20 Mar 1915 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Evening News March 22, 1915
Mrs. Amelia Zastro(sic),63 years old, wife of August Zastro of the Ward road at St. Johnsburg, died at home on Saturday night after a lingering illness. Mrs. Zastro was born in Germany and lived in the town of Wheatfield for thirty-one years. Besides her husband, four daughters, Mrs. Emma Holland, Mrs. Helen Ellman, Mrs. Freida Quester, and Miss Lottie Zastro, all of Wheatfield, and four sons, Frank Zastro of Niagara Falls, Herbert and Otto Zastro of North Tonawanda and August Zastro of St. Johnsburg, survive.
The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon from the family home at 1:30 and a half hour later from the St. John's church at St. Johnsburg. Burial will be made in the St. Johnsburg cemetery

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The Tonawanda News, Sep 21, 1929
WILLIAM F. KAGE
William Frederick Kage, a former resident of North Tonawanda, died yesterday at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Frank Zastrow, West Northrup street, Buffalo, aged 93. Mr. Kage was born in Germany. He came to America 59 years ago and located in North Tonawanda where he resided until going to Buffalo to live five years ago. He is survived by three sons. Frank and Charles Kage, North Tonawanda, and Herman Kage. Thessalon, Ont.; a daughter, Mrs. Zastrow; twelve grandchildren and thirteen great- grandchildren. The body will be brought to the home of Frank Kage, 63 Carson St. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Kage residence on Carson street and half an hour later at the St. Matthew's church on Wheatfield street. Rev. Carl Frankenstein will conduct the services and interment will be in the St. Matthew's cemetery.

William married KOPPE, Henrietta L on 20 Oct 1858 in Prussia. Henrietta was born on 26 Jun 1833 in Brandenburg, Brandenburg, Brandenburg, Germany; died on 13 Nov 1910 in North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Tonawanda News, Nov 14, 1910
DEATH TAKES MRS. HENRIETTE KAGE
Henrietta Kage, wife of William Kage, died at her home at 116 Lincoln Ave. yesterday morning. She is survived by her husband and five children, Frank, Herman O., Charles, Mrs. Charles Gust of North Tonawanda, and Mrs. Frank Zastrow of Niagara Falls. The deceased was 77 years old, and was well known to many residents. She lived in Niagara County for 40 years. The funeral will be held from the late home on Tuesday..........