Donald Allen Chapman

1921 - 2011  (89 years)

• Name	Donald Allen Chapman
  Born	21 Dec 1921	Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Group	Hall Direct Descendant
  	A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family
  Group	Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
  	Descendants of Edward Hall of Rehoboth, Massachusetts (Hall DNA Family 006), and extended and allied families and their ancestors.
  Group	Head of Line - Nicholas Taft
  	Descendants of Nicholas Taft of Stepney, several of whose children were early immigrants to Massachusetts.
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	73784026
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73784026
  Died	23 Jan 2011	Normal, McLean County, Illinois
  Buried	Aft 23 Jan 2011	Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I914	New England Hall Families Master Tree
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2019

  
  

  Father	George Harrison Chapman,   b. 8 Oct 1884, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ,   d. 29 Oct 1944, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Anna May Hall,   b. 21 Jul 1897, Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts ,   d. 23 Aug 1974, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  (Age 77 years)
  Married	14 Sep 1918	Douglas, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F37	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Dorothy Jean O'Donnell,   b. 1 Nov 1922, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts ,   d. 1 Feb 2014, Normal, McLean County, Illinois  (Age 91 years)
  Married	13 Apr 1946	Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Children	1. A.R. Chapman   2. B.S. Chapman   3. N.J. Chapman   4. G.P.". Chapman
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2017
  Family ID	F655	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 21 Dec 1921 - Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts Married - 13 Apr 1946 - Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Died - 23 Jan 2011 - Normal, McLean County, Illinois Buried - Aft 23 Jan 2011 - Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Badges

  Halls of Rehoboth DNA Family 006

  
  

• Notes

  From FindaGrave: Donald A. Chapman, 89 of Normal, IL, formerly of Lowell, died at 5:15 a.m., Sunday - January 23, 2011 at Sugar Creek Care Center, Normal, IL. He was born December 12, 1921 in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, the son of George H. and Anna Hall Chapman. He moved to Lowell, MA and graduated from Lowell High School and Northeastern University in Boston, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1943. He served in the United States Army from 1943-46, with duty in the Pacific theater. He married Dorothy J. O'Donnell April 13, 1946 in Lowell, and began his career with General Electric Co. in Lowell and Fitchburg, MA before moving to Schenectady, New York in 1947. In 1954, he moved to Normal, IL as one of the original engineers who opened the GE General Purpose Control plant in Bloomington, and later was appointed manager of the Manufacturing Engineering Department. In 1972, he became general manager of the GE plant in Avon Lake, Ohio, and in 1974, general manager of the GE plant in Selmer, Tennessee. He retired in 1984, returned to Bloomington in 2003 and moved back to Normal in 2010. The Chapmans also enjoyed their summer home in Laconia, NH from 1989-2009. He is survived by his wife, sons Alan (Kathie), Barry (Jessie Norris), and Pete (Linda), daughter Nancy (Joel) Kindle, grandchildren Matt (Carrie) Chapman, Heather (Nate) Damery, and Todd (Corin) Chapman, Elizabeth (Matt Mitchell) Majerus, John Kindle, James Kindle, Rory and Ryan Chapman, Ashley Aubrey and Adam Lopez, 7 great-grandchildren, and brother-in-law Richard Sykes of Laconia, NH. He was preceded in death by his parents and his sister Myrtle Sykes. He was formerly a member of United Methodist churches in New York, Illinois, and Tennessee, and a United Church of Christ in Ohio, and was currently a member of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Bloomington. Fay McCabe Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. ___________ Full Obituary published in the Lowell Sun, Jan. 30, 2011