Louis Benedict Langhi January 14, 1914 - November 26, 1979

A Captain of Industry in his prime.

In rehabilitation after surgery for a cerebral aneurism.

Services for Louis Benedict Langhi, 65, of 422 Cardinal Drive, a retired industrialist and civic leader, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Church with burial in Green Hill Memorial Gardens.

Visitation will be after 4 p.m. Thursday at Fuqua-Hinton Funeral Rome, where the rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Langhi, former owner and president of Mid-Continent Spring Co., died at 6:15 pm. Monday in Jennie Stuart Hospital, where he had been a patient for about two weeks. The industrialist had been active on local, state and national levels, engaging in industrial activities and in civic affairs. Illness eight years ago forced his retirement.

A native of Great Falls, Mont., Langhi was the son of Louis and Antonette Yappi Langhi and was a member of the local Catholic church.

His wife, Myra Elizabeth Langhi, died last June.

Langhi came to Hopkinsville in 1958 and opened the spring manufacturing plant, where employment initially numbered 55 persons. A series of expansions and continued growth has brought current employment at the plant to 175.

Orphaned when he was 4 years old, Langhi was reared in St. Thomas Orphans Home in Great Falls.

He left there during the Depression in the 1930s and started in the spring industry as an apprentice tool maker, studying in his spare time.

In 1938, he became chief engineer of Accurate Spring and Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL., and organized Atlas Spring and Manutacturing there in 1941, selling that company four years later. Mid-Continent was organized by Langhi in 1946 in St. Louis, MO.

During World War II he served on the advisory board of the spring industry to the U.S. government.

Active in the Chamber of Commerce, he was named president of the local chamber in 1965. He has served as a member of the Advisory Board of Hopkinsville Community College, as a director of the Hopkinsville Industrial Foundation, a director for the United Way and Southern States Industrial Council.

Survivors include two sons, Tom, of Hopkinsville, KY. and L.J. Langhi, of Phoenix, AZ.; and one brother, Bruno A. Langhi, St. Louis, Mo.

Memorials may be in the form of donations to the Hopkinsville Community College Education Foundation.

His trophy fish.

Portrait of a self-made man.