Samuel Husbands Langstaff, MD

Samuel Husbands Langstaff Jr., MD

April 18 1927-September 30 2022

Sam passed away on September 30th 2022, aged 95. A funeral service will be held at noon on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at Littleton Cemetery. A reception will follow at Pinehurst Country Club. All are invited to both. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Marguerite Terrell Langstaff, his sons Richard Langstaff (Virginia) and Samuel Husbands Langstaff 3rd, daughters Elizabeth Blei (Michael), Marguerite McVey (David) and Lucy Dinneen (Peter), 13 grandchildren including Alexander, Margot, Elizabeth, Sarah, Matthew, Peter, Terrell, David, Nicole, Katherine, James, Kelly and William Samuel Langstaff Dinneen, and 2 great grandchildren Elise and Jones. His grandson Samuel Husbands Bond Langstaff predeceased him in September, 2002.

Sam was a physician and loved his patients, his family and his many friends, and he was loved in return. He could always be relied on for a great story and for support anytime it was needed. He practiced medicine in Littleton, Colorado beginning in 1959. Amongst other achievements, he was one of the first in the United States to achieve Board Certification in Family Practice. He was deeply committed to his community and received numerous awards and honors in his lifetime including inter alia Littleton’s Foremost Citizen of the Year. He was a loyal member of the Littleton Rotary Club for decades. 

In the early 1970’s Dr. Langstaff created and led a combined mock medical class at Arapahoe, Heritage and Littleton High Schools for students who had an interest in medicine as a career. Over the years he was responsible for the initial exposure to medicine of literally hundreds of future physicians and other healthcare workers. Sam served in the US Army at the end of WW II and was stationed in Germany. He was proud of this service and equally proud that several German POWs became lifelong friends. 

Following retirement from his practice, Sam actively supported the medical community by volunteering at local clinics, continuing to serve as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado Medical School, and interviewing hundreds of applicants as a long serving member of the CU Medical School Admissions Committee.

Sam was born in Paducah, Kentucky and spent his high school years during the first part of WW II in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After his Army service, he graduated from Oberlin College and George Washington University Medical School. He completed his family practice residency at the CU Medical School in Denver and started his medical practice. He and Margie, also from Paducah, were married in 1956. He was a lifelong Episcopalian and a member of Christ Episcopal Church. Notwithstanding his many achievements, he loved nothing more than growing corn and strawberries in his garden and taking long day trips exploring the Colorado mountains. Loved by his family and many others, Sam will be missed.

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