Frederick J. Lengsfeld, Esskay worker

Frederick John Lengsfeld, a longtime Esskay worker and World War II veteran, died Sunday from oral cancer at the College Manor nursing home in Lutherville. The Hamilton resident was 92. He was the son of Leo Lengsfeld, a laborer, and Anna Richter Lengsfeld, a homemaker, and was the second-oldest of 11 children.

Mr. Lengsfeld left city public schools in the 11th grade so he could work, helping support his family after his father suffered a job injury.

He served in the Army from 1943 to 1946 as an artilleryman.

In the 1940s Mr. Lengsfeld began his 50-year career at Esskay, the old East Baltimore meat packing company, weighing animals that had been slaughtered.

He was later named promotions manager for the company’s trucking fleet and often gave away hot dogs at sporting events at the old Memorial Stadium. He retired in the early 1990s.

He was married 32 years to the former Helen May Emkey, a florist and homemak- er. She died in 1989.

Mr. Lengsfeld, a longtime resident of Belle Vista Avenue in Hamilton, enjoyed shopping for friends and neighbors who could no longer drive, and often served as a chauffeur for them as well.

“He was a connoisseur of lazy afternoon hammock naps while listening to country music,” said his daughter, Elaine Hough of Glen Rock, Pa.

When he was younger, his daughter said, he enjoyed zipping around Baltimore aboard his orange scooter.

Mr. Lengsfeld had been a communicant of the old St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, and was a parishioner at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Fullerton.

Funeral services were held Thursday at Lemmon Funeral Home in Timonium.

In addition to his daughter, Mr. Lengsfeld is survived by a brother, Thomas Lengsfeld of Rosedale; sisters Mary Dorer of Golden Ring and Genevieve Thim of Rosedale; and a niece.