Isle of Wight County-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Chapman, James H., 1969 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JAMES HENRY CHAPMAN Windsor - James Henry Chapman, 42, died early Saturday in a Suffolk hospital. A native of Isle of Wight County, he was a son of Obie D. and Mrs. Sally Joyner Chapman and the husband of Mrs. Audrey Giles Chapman. He was an Army veteran of World War II and a retired pipecoverer of Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. He was a member of Peninsula Shipbuilders Association. Besides his wife, he is survived by four sons, Jimmy W. Chapman of Smithfield, and Gerald D. Chapman, Tommy I. Chapman, Kenneth D. Chapman of Windsor; a daughter, Peggy Jean Chapman of Windsor; two sisters Mrs. Willie T. Wells of Ivor and Mrs. Edward E. O'Berry of Wakefield; two brothers Lewis H. Chapman of Windsor and W.B. Chapman of Portsmouth; and a granddaughter. Funeral service will be held today at 2:30 p.m. in Purviance Funeral Chapel, Wakefield, by the Rev. Richard T. Squires. Burial will be in Antioch Church Cemetery near Windsor. James Henry CHAPMAN, retired NNS&DD pipe-coverer, Army veteran of WW-II, b. 4 Dec 1926, Isle of Wight Co., d. 20 Sep 1969, Suffolk, interred in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery*, 21 Sep 1969, "Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Sep. 21, 1969, p. B4 *Additional information: Antioch list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/antioch.txt Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #20: http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html His parents are buried there also. His father's obit ("Sussex-Surry Dispatch," Aug. 23, 1956, p. 1) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/c155o1ob.txt His mother's obits ("Suffolk News-Herald" & "Virginian-Pilot," Mar. 1965) are posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/c155s1ob.txt His widow's obit (Parr Funeral Home, 2018) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/c155a3ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/c155j1ob.txt