THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, September 14, 1996 TAG: 9609140634
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B6 EDITION: FINAL
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John Hobart Langrall, 70, of the 800 block of Stockley Gardens, died Sept. 12, 1996, in a Norfolk hospital.
Mr. Langrall, an accompolished musician and piano teacher, was a native of Centerville, Md., and was raised in Sandston and Richmond. He had lived in Norfolk since 1953. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. Mr. Langrall was a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory and attended the University of Richmond. He was a member of the Tidewater Music Teachers Forum. He founded the Langrall School of Music in 1965 in Virginia Beach and taught there until 1985 at which time he opened a home studio in the Ghent section of Norfolk. He achieved recognition as the teacher of local nationally recognized students. Mr. Langrall was also the subject of a September 1996 feature article in the Clavier Music Journal highlighting Mr. Langrall's piano teaching career.
Survivors include a brother, James Sidney Langrall of Waynesboro, Va.; two nieces and a nephew and a host of friends, collegues and pupils.
A chapel service will be conducted at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk. Burial will be private in Waynesboro, Va. Memorial contributions may be made to the Music Department of Old Dominion University, to assist with the award for annual classical competitions, c/o Educational Foundation, ODU, Norfolk, Va. 23529.
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