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Submitted: 1/3/21 • Approved: 1/4/21 • Last Updated: 1/7/21 • R375530-G0-S3
July 19, 1947-March 2, 1968
In Loving Memory
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Leland Chapman, 20, a student at North Texas State University, Denton, are scheduled at 2 p.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church, Phillips, with the pastor, the Rev. John Street, officiating.
Burial in Westlawn Memorial Park will be directed by Simpson Funeral Home.
Casketbearers are Clyce Purcell, Larry Talley, Clark Youngblood, Royce Nelson, Bobby Bybee, and Burton Williams.
Chapman died Saturday in Dallas Parkland Hospital.
He was employed by Texas Instruments in Dallas.
Surviving are his wife, Lynn; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Chapman of Phillips; sister, Joyce Shelton of Borger; and grandmother, Mrs. Lou Chapman of Borger.
Memorials may be sent to the Department of Internal Medicine, Southwestern Medical School, in care of Dr. Burton Combes, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75235.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Monday, March 4, 1968)
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Texas, Marriage Index, 1824-2014
Name: Leland Allen Chapman
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Birth Year: abt 1948
Marriage Date: 27 Jan 1967
Marriage Place: Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Spouse: Barbara Lynn Sumpter
Spouse Gender: Female
Spouse Age: 19
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Leland Chapman
Death Date: 2 Mar 1968
Death County: Dallas
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Elland Allen Chapman [sic]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 20
Birth Date: 19 Jul 1947
Birth Place: Okmulgee, oklahoma
Residence: Denton, Denton, Texas, USA
Death Date: 2 Mar 1968
Death Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
Father: Cecil Chapman
Mother: Eunice Wootten
Certificate Number: 17439
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