Grace Esther Grossheim Lange was born June 22, 1933, to Theodore and Clara Grossheim of St. Louis, MO and returned home to her Lord February 2, 2025. She attended school at Concordia Lutheran School in Maplewood, MO, Lutheran High School Central South, St. Louis, and Lutheran High School in Seward, Nebraska. She excelled in academics and enjoyed playing the piano. Grace was an exceptional seamstress, sewing many of her own clothes along with learning to quilt and other needlework skills. She attended Concordia Lutheran College in River Forrest, IL, and moved to St. Paul’s Lutheran School in Concordia, MO to teach elementary School. While teaching in Concordia, she met her husband James A. Lange, and they married July 1, 1956. Grace enjoyed volunteering at the churches where her husband James served as Principal and Pastor. She was very active with The LWML and various music ministries. Upon retirement, they moved to Lewes, DE where she sang in the choir and played organ at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Rehoboth, DE. Grace and James moved back to the St. Louis area in 1999 to be closer to family. They moved into Breeze Park retirement center in 2010 where she lived and continued to play organ until her death. Grace was preceded in death by son Martin Lange (1998) and husband James Lange (2021). She is survived by her daughter, Rebecca, Son-in-Law, Mark (both in Baltimore, MD), Daughter-in-Law Mary (Ft. Wayne, IN), and brother Theodore (Kirkwood, MO). In lieu of flowers, please consider a gift to The LCMS Lutheran Women’s Missionary League or to Breeze Park Retirement Community.
Funeral Arrangements: Monday February 10th, Breeze Park Chapel, 600 Breeze Park Drive, Weldon Spring MO 63304, Visitation 10 AM to 11 AM, Funeral at 11 AM. Interment following the funeral around 1p.m. at Concordia Cemetery, 4209 Bates Street, Saint Louis 63116.