Saraellen "Saren" Langmann

11/29/1932 - 04/08/2025

Stonington - Saraellen "Saren" Langmann of Stonington, passed away peacefully April 8, 2025. She was 92 years old. Saren was born in Chestnut Hill, Pa., and graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in art history.

After college, Saren married Hugh Toulmin, her first husband from Dover, Mass. They settled in Hartford, where they raised three children until 1970, when they moved to Stonington. In 1978, Hugh tragically passed away from an aneurysm at the age of 48. Saren then married Bob Langmann from Farmington. They were married for 27 years before Bob passed away in 2007.

Throughout Saren's life, she had many interests and passions. She loved the arts and was an avid volunteer. She spent more than 25 years at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT. Saren served on several community boards, including the Farmington Land Trust, the Farmington Historical Society, and the Connecticut Valley Garden Club as its president. After moving to Stonington full time in 1999, she continued her community service at various Stonington nonprofit organizations including the Stonington Garden Club, the Stonington Library, the vestry of Calvary Church, as well as starting the Calvary Church Memorial Garden in 1978. In addition, Saren volunteered for the Southeastern Connecticut Community Foundation. As a freelance photographer, she published a pictorial history of the town of Farmington, and she had a business doing photo inventories for insurance purposes with a partner. Gardening, tennis, golf, trout fishing, reading, and most especially being a grandmother were her favorite pastimes.

Above all, her family was most important to her. She imparted her passion for nature and art to her children and her grandchildren. She kept bees, trudged through swamps to watch the woodcock's mate, loved working in her gardens, and painting, focusing on painting her grandchildren. Growing roses was her true gardening joy. Her roses were bountiful and a dominant beauty in her garden. Saren loved to entertain friends and family in her beautiful garden. A hallmark of Saren's hospitality was always having a vase of freshly cut flowers on the bedside table when guests or family visited. She was a very caring supportive mother and grandmother who was a great role model. Saren was admired for her resilience, passion for life, optimism, unselfishness, and positive outlook. She had a great sense of humor and a lovely laugh, and loved to dance. We can learn by her example of how to treat others as she did, with utmost respect, kindness, compassion and dignity. She will be missed by many. She lived her life by the golden rule: always putting the needs of others before her own. Her legacy of kindness, positivity and selflessness will live on in her children and grandchildren, and the friends she touched.

She is predeceased by her parents; her sister; and her two husbands. She is survived by her three children and their spouses: Sarael and Tom Sargent, Cooper and Katie Toulmin and Chaffe and Julie Toulmin; two stepsons and their families; a nephew, Duff Ashmead, and his spouse; as well as her seven grandchildren and a spouse; and one great-grandson.

The family will have a private burial service. A memorial service will be announced at a to-be-determined date. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the Stoneridge Scholarship fund or the Stonington Free Library.