Obituary Record

Lilyan H (Hindley) Chapman
Died on 6/4/2011
Buried in Arlington Cemetery

Lilyan H. Chapman, 103 Taught Music in Kennard in the Late 1920s Lilyan H. Chapman, 103, died Saturday, June 4, 2011, at her home in Sunland, Calif. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 15, at Reckmeyer-Moser Funeral Home in Arlington. Interment will be at the Arlington Cemetery. Visitation will be from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Lilyan H. Hindley was born May 19, 1908, in Blair to Carl and Ida (Carpenter) Hindley. She was a 1924 graduate of Blair High School, and graduated from Dana College in Blair as a music supervisor. She also attended Wayne State College for a short time. She taught music at Kennard for two years, then worked as a cashier at the Paxton Hotel in Omaha for three years. On Aug. 31, 1933, she married Donald A. Chapman of Arlington in Denver, Colo. She lived in Denver from 1933 to 1936, and worked as a technical correspondent for Montgomery Ward. The couple moved to Tulsa, Okla., and Dallas, Texas, then, in 1940, moved to Los Angeles, Calif. They moved to Montrose, Calif., before returning to Dallas where Mr. Chapman was transferred during World War II. The family eventually moved back to Los Angeles in 1946 before building their home in Sunland, where she lived most of her married life. Mrs. Chapman was active in civic activities and held a life membership in the PTA; she was a member of the Sunland Womens Club and the Ebell Club, serving on the executive boards of each. She returned to college, taking night courses to earn her teaching degree from San Fernando Valley State College at Northridge in 1961. She taught elementary school at Roscoe, Sun Valley, Lassen in Sepulveda, and Plainview at Sunland for a total of 11 years. While at the Lassen School, she served as a demonstration teacher for the Valley State College at Northridge. She retired in 1972. She is survived by her daughters and son-in-law, Sandy and James Mullally of Altadena, Calif., and Barry Jean Hamm of Ontario, Calif.; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Donald, in 1978; a brother; and two sisters.
Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 6/10/2011


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