Title	Mr.
Last Name	Springall
First Name	Joseph
Middle Name	K.
Maiden Name
Nick Name
Place of Birth	Garland, ME
Date of Birth
Place of Death	Dexter, ME
Date of Death
Publication	The Eastern Gazette 2-3-1944, p.3 (LHC)
Obituary	JOSEPH K. SPRINGALL Joseph K. Springall was born in Garland, Maine, the son of Dr. Joseph and Maria Springall and died in Dexter in December, 1938, aged eighty years. The family came to Dexter in his boyhood so most of his life was spent in this town. He attended the local schools of Dexter and a preparatory school in Portland with the intention of entering Bowdoin college, but decided to pursue his interest in music instead. He entered the Northern Conservatory of Music In Boston, and graduated after an extensive study of piano, voice and organ work. He then went to London and Paris where he attended lectures on piano study, and spent three days a week in Paris tutoring under a noted voice teacher. Later in life he again returned to Europe and made a tour of the principal cities, visiting several large cathedrals in the interest of his organ study. For several years Mr. Springall visited the late Frederic Peaks of Philadelhia, a noted American voice teacher, where he studied the improvements in voice culture. Mr. Springall had a number of voice and piano students in this section of the state up to the time of his retirement a few years before his death. He served as organist in the different churches of Dexter. He had been organist at the Universalist church for over thirty years and kept up this work as long as his health permitted. Funeral services were held at the Church of the Messiah, Episcopal in Dexter, of which he was a member. Rev. Gordon E. Gillette of Old Town officiated.