Bert W. Chapman
Posted Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 8:49am
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Bert Warren Chapman succumbed to lung cancer on Dec. 29, 2009. He was named after his Grandfather, co-owner of Bryant and Chapman Dairy founded in 1896 in Hartford, son of the late Webster Chapman and Anne Campbell who also ran a family farm named Harmony Hill Farm until 1952 in Durham. He was an active member of 4H and graduated class of 1950 in Durham. He was married to Patrician J. Kelly from 1956 to 2005. Their wedding marked the third generation of the bride’s family to wed at Saint John’s Church in Middletown.
Chapman served in the Korean War where he played the trumpet in the eighth Cavalry Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps. He worked for the State of CT in signs and markings, Daniels Farm Dairy (known by his customers as the “moo-man”), Pratt and Whitney, Middletown Press mail room supervisor and at Durham Manufacturing.
He will be remembered by his two children, daughter Colleen P. Chapman and her husband Mark Watrous, of Middletown, and son John (Jack) P. Chapman and his wife Nancy Dupre of Cromwell; grandchildren Megan Watrous, Ernest Watrous, Timothy M. Watrous, Alyssa Chapman, Ryan Chapman; one great-granddaughter Alaina Cho Watrous- Redman and numerous nieces and nephews by the many stories about his life and his view on the world of yesterday and today. His pets Ben, Fannie and Bridget will also miss him.
He was predeceased in death by his brother Webster (Bud) Chapman of Madison. He is survived by his two sisters, Dorothy Chapman and her husband Randal Hathway of Thomaston, and Virginia Chapman and her husband Douglas Harmon of Durham, who will truly miss their brother.
Bert will be buried in the State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown. He has requested that his funeral and Christian burial remain private for the convenience of his family.
And a special thank you from the family to the pallbearer’s: nephew’s Louis Formica, Charles Harman, Allan Hathway, Keith Hathway, Grandson’s Ernest Watrous and Timothy Watrous.
In lieu of flowers, his children are requesting that a memorial contribution in his name be made to Saint John’s School Fund , c/o St. John Church, 19 St. John Sq., Middletown, CT 06457. Biega Funeral Home has care of the arrangements.
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