2004-10-30/2019-12-06 - From the OHS PC Database, (James H. Cook and Elizabeth Towne Schmitt, co-editors). — Meridith Blanchard Sperling was the wife of the late Robert M. Sperling. After raising five children, she started a new career in 1985, joining her husband in working with the Dobson firm of Lake City, Iowa. Initially working in construction of toe boards and racking pipes, she gradually expanded duties in her 18 years with the company. She made windchests, assisted with pipemaking, prepared pipes for voicing and wrapped them for shipping, made and assembled console and key action components, releathered pneumatic windchest actions, and assisted in the restoration of historic organs. She continued working there after her husband's death in 1999; retiring from Dobson in 2008. Source: Not listed, presumed to be personal knowledge of the editors or information supplied to them by an unnamed person.
2015-10-21/2019-12-06 - Main entry Dobson Pipe Organ Builders.
2019-12-07/2019-12-07 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Wife of Robert M. Sperling; with Dobson firm of Lake City, Iowa, 1985; active 1989. Source: Correspondence of David H. Fox.
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