Memorial service: 10 a.m. Saturday, May 30, First United Methodist Church in Jefferson. Visitation: 4-6 p.m. Thursday, May 28, Letts United Methodist Church, with a memorial service at 6 p.m. Visitation: 5-7 p.m. Friday, May 29, First United Methodist C

INDIANOLA, Iowa —Samuel Gene Langstaff, 30, was killed in a car accident May 23, 2009, along with his wife, Jackie.

A private family burial will be at a later date.

Mr Langstaff was born Dec. 21, 1978, in Muscatine.

He lived in rural Wapello and graduated from Louisa-Muscatine High School, Letts in 1997.  He graduated from Simpson College in 2001 with a bachelor’s in communications. 

He married Jackie Haupert on July 22, 2006, in Jefferson.

He worked for Nationwide and Principal in Des Moines during his career. 

He was a member of the Letts United Methodist Church. 

He is survived by his parents, Susan and Gene Langstaff of Wapello; brothers, Luke Langstaff and wife, Jen and their children, Alex and Makayla of Elk River, Minn., and Mitch Langstaff of Stillwater, Okla.; grandmother, Dorothy Bailey of Letts; great-aunt and uncle, Betty Houseman and husband, Jim of Muscatine, Imogene Bailey of Wapello, Evan Bailey of Terrill, and Lyle Hanft of Texas; aunts and uncles, Kris Bailey and husband, Larry of Alaska, Karen Schaapueld and husband, Dan of North Liberty,  Molly Langstaff and husband, Dean of Davenport, and  many cousins, friends and other family will deeply miss him.