| 3. |  Donald Allen Chapman  (1.Anna1) was born on 21 Dec 1921 in Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jan 2011 in Normal, McLean County, Illinois; was buried after 23 Jan 2011 in Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Other Events:
- Group: Hall Direct Descendant
- Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
- Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft
- FindaGrave Memorial ID: 73784026
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.
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Full Obituary published in the Lowell Sun, Jan. 30, 2011
Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family
Group:
Descendants of Edward Hall of Rehoboth, Massachusetts (Hall DNA Family 006), and extended and allied families and their ancestors.
Group:
Descendants of Nicholas Taft of Stepney, several of whose children were early immigrants to Massachusetts.
FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73784026
Donald married Dorothy Jean O'Donnell on 13 Apr 1946 in Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Dorothy (daughter of Joseph Edward O'Donnell and Olive Maud Rice) was born on 1 Nov 1922 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died on 1 Feb 2014 in Normal, McLean County, Illinois; was buried after 1 Feb 2014 in Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1897 - 1974 (77 years)
