Miss Grace Chapman

CHAPMAN, PACKER, PIPER, SADDLER, SCOVILLE

Posted By: Volunteer - Paul French (email)
Date: 7/3/2005 at 14:26:30

MISS GRACE CHAPMAN

[handwritten: July 1935 paper]

Closing her life work June 19, the same month which for so many years had terminated her professional activities, Grace Josephine Chapman passed away at Tujunga, Calif., in the rest home which she entered last October.

Born in Keokuk, Iowa, the daughter of Alfred and Martha Chapman, she was one of several sisters and brothers who grew up in Bonaparte, the family having moved there when Grace was a small child. She attended the local schools, and when a very young girl started her career in the rural schools.

After several successful years in Bonaparte and Farmington schools, and in Des Moines, where her work was especially outstanding, she went to Spokane, Wash. As a principal of Washington School in Spokane for twenty years, she not alone proved her executive ability by her work there, but carried and completed a course in Washington University, receiving her A. B. degree.

Retiring from the principalship ten years ago she went to Hollywood to reside with her sister, Miss U. L. Chapman and a brother, A. D. Chapman and there she became associated with several of the largest motion picture producing companies as studio teacher and a member of the Los Angeles Welfare board for picture workers. Among her earlier pupils are many now prominent actors and actresses, and whose high regard was expressed in the frequent visits and floral gifts during her several months illness.

Miss Chapman was formerly a member of chapter I, P.E.O., Keosauqua, but affiliated with chapter FP in Los Angeles in 1927. She also belonged to Magnolia Chapter, No. 276, Eastern Star, having held membership since 1914 in her home town.

Funeral services were held Saturday, June 22, in the mortuary chapel, with which a relative of the family and a former Bonaparte boy, Darrell McConnaughey, is associated. Burial was in the beautiful Hollywood cemetery. Complete ritualistic P.E.O. services in the chapel and at the graveside were conducted by chapter FP.

Among floral offerings were elaborate ones from the picture corporations, Los Angeles motion picture teachers and countless friends.

Surviving are her brother, A. D. Chapman and sisters, Miss U. L. Chapman of Hollywood, Mrs. Emma Packer of Bonaparte and Mrs. Mattie C. Scoville of Seattle. Her brothers, Thomas P., Edward W., and George P.; and sisters, Mrs. Kate Saddler and Mrs. Anna Piper preceded her in death during recent [remainder of article missing]