Steve Langasek

Steve Langasek, 45, of Portland, Oregon, passed away on January 1, 2025, at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital.

Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:00 am on Monday, January 13, 2025 at Holy Family Catholic Church. A visitation will be held from 2:00 – 4:00 pm, on Sunday, January 12, 2025 at Halligan McCabe DeVries Funeral Home. Burial will be in Holy Family Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Pueblo Unido PDX (https://www.pueblounidopdx.org/donate), Catholic Charities of Portland – Immigration Legal Services (https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/donate/), or Khan Academy (https://donate.khanacademy.org/).

Steve was born on April 27, 1979 in Davenport, Iowa, son of Alois and JoAnn (Teeple) Langasek. He graduated from Davenport West High School and earned a B.A. in Spanish from Iowa State University. He worked as a software developer for Canonical.

Steve enjoyed world travel. Steve’s passion for Free and Open Source Software, which he believed enabled people to change the world, led him to become a Debian developer and eventually a principal engineer for Ubuntu, serving tens of millions of users. He had an unrelenting and unbreakable sense of social justice. He found many ways to support causes near and dear to his heart and educated everyone he could about current injustices and what we can do to improve them.

Steve was preceded in death by his mother. His memory will be treasured by his wife Patty and son Xavier of Portland, Oregon; father Alois of Davenport, Iowa; and brother Tony, sister-in-law Julie, nephews Marcus and Andrew, and niece Eliza of St. Charles, Missouri.