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Jesse Chapman Obituary
Chapman, Jr.
Asheville - Dr. Jesse P. Chapman, Jr., 93, of Asheville, died Wednesday, October 5, 2011, at the John F. Keever Hospice Solace Center.
Dr. Chapman was born September 6, 1918 in Birmingham, AL, and was a son of the late Jesse P. Chapman, Sr. and Frances Williams Chapman. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Frances Day Chapman; daughter Frances Elisabeth; and great-granddaughter Isabella Chapman.
Dr. Chapman was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Alabama in 1939. He then received his MD in 1943 from the University of Pennsylvania. His Internship and Residency were completed at Grady Memorial Hospital, in Atlanta, GA, and his Fellowship in General Surgery at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. He was a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
Dr. Chapman was a Past President of the Buncombe County Medical Society, and a member of the North Carolina Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and the American College of Surgeons (Fellow).
Dr. Chapman was the Co-Founder and Past President of Mountain Area Hospice; on the Board of Directors for Memorial Mission Hospital; Past Chairman and Board of Trustee for the North Carolina Baptist Hospital; on the Board of Directors of Hospice of North Carolina; a Past Chairman and Board of Trustee of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; Past President of the Asheville Rotary Club; and Past District Governor of Rotary International, District 767.
He was also the author or co-author of a number of medical articles.
Dr. Chapman was a member of First Baptist Church, Asheville, having served as a Sunday School Teacher, choir member, and Life Deacon. He was a Veteran of the U.S. Army, having served during WWII.
He is survived by sons Jesse Chapman, III, and wife Mary of Asheville, and James Chapman and wife Andrea of Colorado Springs, CO; grandchildren Amy (Chapman) Longstreth, Jesse Chapman, IV, and Giles David Chapman; and 5 great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church, with Dr. Guy Sayles officiating. His family will receive friends at the church immediately following the service.
A private family burial will be held at Green Hills Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial may be made to CarePartners Hospice, PO Box 25338, Asheville, NC 28813, or to the American Lung Association, 514 Daniels St. #109, Raleigh, NC 27605, or to the Chapman Memorial Fund, First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St., Asheville, NC 28801, or to a charity of one's choice.
Groce Funeral Home on Patton Ave. is assisting the family, and the on-line register is available at www.grocefuneralhome.com.
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Dr. C and me
Debbie Klutz
October 11, 2011
I have loved "Dr. C" my whole life. He was always so kind and warm and always genuinely interested in my whole family. I can remember being treated by him whenever any of us were ill - and never charging us one penny. He was more interested in making us well. He lived his whole life in this manner. Bruce Moore says it best - he will always live within me, and he will always be a part of who I am.
Bruce Moore
October 8, 2011
Of course there are no perfect people, but Dr. Chapman came as close to perfect as anyone I have ever known.
I absolutely idolized him as a youth. What better role model than him!
I will never forget his incredible baritone voice. With his encouragement, I became a professional musician. In my 39 years of experience, I have played concerts with the best singers in the world, but no one ever surpassed him.
To Jesse and Jim, I offer you my thoughts and my tears. Please know that your father touched the hearts of so many, many people like me through the church and through his medical practice. Though he is no longer with us, he certainly lives within me and within countless others, and we all pass something of your father to our children, and they will pass it on to their children, so he will live forever. God bless you both.
Bruce Moore
October 7, 2011
So long as I can remember, I have loved Jesse Chapman. In the patterning of families I was the only grandchild in the groupings of reunions who did not fit in. To the Chapmans in Alabama and the Clifts in Oklahoma I was the one from ˜out of town. I was the Texan whose accent was a new sound and whose pattern of life held yesterday's outside the dimension of the familys usual calendar. I was loved and greeted and introduced to cousins and aunts and uncles and grandfathers who welcomed me to the event of the family gathering even though my daily life did not include our togetherness. And then, growing up unto maturity, I chose the profession of theater that had no echo in the personnel of gatherings and was an unusual accent in the language of daily lives. Both trees of family welcomed me, but there was always a special branch that waved placement of acceptance. Jesse Chapman was a special branch. I have no memory further back in my history that does not spread its leaves in love for Jesse.
This morning, as the Chapmans gather to share the fellowship of loss, my world in my Texas habitat is a little different, marred by loss even though I celebrate what Jesses life gave to the world he so graciously blessed. He profiled God in his loved family, in his teaching of the Bible to numerous classes, in the excellence of his professional practice, in the stature of his profile and in his encouragement for all who crossed his path. I am privileged to mourn the loss of such a man and to celebrate his arrival in a place of joy as we who celebrated his love in this often-lonely world grieve in loss and cherish forever the effectiveness of Jesses presence.
With love,
Jeannette Clift George
October 7, 2011
Jesse, I was saddened to hear about the passing of your Dad. Judy and I extend our condolences to you and your family.
George & Judy Todd
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