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   OA Online Obituaries. 
   
December 12, 1998

Permian Basin Obituaries

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   Ethelston Chapman
   
   WACO  --  Former  Odessan, Ethelston Chapman of Fountainbleau, France,
   died Nov. 6, 1998, after a short illness.
   
   Mrs. Chapman was born April 2, 1920, in Waco. She earned music degrees
   from  North Texas State College in Denton and pursued doctoral studies
   at  Eastman  School  of  Music in Rochester, N.Y. In 1951, she married
   LaMarr Chapman, who was also an accomplished pianist and composer. The
   couple  located in Odessa, where they worked and taught for many years
   until  Mr.  Chapman's  death. "Eth," as Mrs. Chapman was widely known,
   taught  private piano and theory and anchored the Odessa College Music
   Department  as  theory  instructor.  Colleagues,  former  students and
   friends  remember  "Eth"  as a consummate musician, innovative teacher
   and  loyal friend with a hearty sense of humor. Her high standards and
   expectations  in  all her teaching formed solid beginnings for many of
   West Texas' young musicians.
   
   Dating  from  1958,  Eth Chapman spent her summers at the famous music
   school  at  Fontainbleau,  France,  where she studied with Mlle. Nadia
   Boulanger.  Later,  she sometimes invited her most serious students to
   also  attend  the  American School of Arts at Fontainbleau. There they
   lived  and  studied  with  promising students, young and old, who were
   drawn there by the desire to study with the aging Mlle. Boulanger.
   
   After  her  husband's  death,  Mrs.  Chapman moved to France where she
   became  proctor  and  assistant  to Mlle. Boulanger for several years.
   Also,  until  her  death  she  accompanied  a  ballet  academy and was
   organist at a local convent.
   
   Eth  Chapman  leaves  a  legacy  of  belief in excellence and a hearty
   attitude  of  "Go For It!" She was well known for her lack of patience
   with mediocrity, but students who were willing to work found her to be
   their lifelong champion.
   
   Memorial  services  for  Mrs. Chapman were held in France and later in
   Waco.  Burial  was  in  Oakwood  Cemetery  in Waco beside her husband,
   LaMarr.  Survivors  include one sister, Elizabeth Provence of Brevard,
   N.C.; and three nieces.
   
   Suggested  memorials  are:  Odessa  College  Music Fund, c/o Dr. Linda
   Ward,  Director  of  Institutional Advancement, Odessa College, 201 W.
   University  Blvd.,  Odessa, 79764; or The Ethelston and LaMarr Chapman
   Scholarship, c/o Dr. Jack Roberts, Chairman Keyboard Division, College
   of Music, University of North Texas, Denton, 76203.
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