From the Lodi News-Sentinel, 10 Feb 1977:
Mrs. Caroline H. Lang, 73, 728 Holly Drive, died early Tuesday evening after an extended illness.
A native of Neudorf, Odessa, Russia, she came to America with her parents in 1914, settling in Streeter, N.D., where she began her education. The family moved to Blackfoot, Ida. in 1918 and five years later she married Victor Haupt, Jr., and moved to Vancouver, Wash. The couple moved to Portland, Ore. in 1925 and to Bend, Ore. in 1930. Sixteen years later, they moved to Lodi.
Mrs. Lang's first husband died in 1947 and in 1948 she married Robert Lang, who passed away in 1967.
She owned and operated her own cafe here in 1952 and has worked as a chef for several restaurants locally, including the Log Cabin, the El Topaz, the Hollywood Cafe, the Woodbridge Golf and Country Club, the University of the Pacific in Stockton and, most recently, the Rex Cafe in Lodi.
She was a member of Emanuel Lutheran Church and numerous community organizations, including Flora Rebekah Lodge No. 162, Women of the Moose, American Legion Auxiliary No. 22, Academy of Friendship and the Lodi Senior Citizens Club.
Survivors include three sons, Victor, Albert and Robert Haupt, all of Lodi; a daughter, Mrs. Darlene Blair of Lodi; six step sons, Leland and Gary Lang, both of Lodi, Alvin Lang of Sonora, Wilmar "Bill" Lang of Pittsburg, Ray Lang of Reno and Marvin Lang of Zap, N.D.; four step-daughters, Mrs. Mary Haupt of Lodi, Mrs. Eldora Welch of Arvada, Colo., Mrs. Viola Easley of Pittsburg and Mrs. Greta Grimes of Antioch; five brothers, Ben Schaffer of Lodi, Joseph, Jake and Pete Schaffer, all of Portland, Ore., and William Schaffer of Manhattan Beach; two sisters, Mrs. Lydia Donovan of Lodi and Mrs. Pauline Palmtag of Modesto; 30 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Services will be held Friday at 1:30 p.m. in the Lodi Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Frederick H. Mau of Emanuel American Lutheran Church officiating. Interment will be in Cherokee Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society or the Diabetes Foundation.