Mr. John Franklin "Tank" Chapman Jr.

COLUMBIA A memorial service for John Franklin Chapman, Jr. will be held Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. The family will receive friends immediately following the service in Satterlee Hall at the church. The family will also receive friends at the home of his son, John Chapman, on Sunday, March 24th, from 2:00 until 5:00 p.m. Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street, is assisting the family. Mr. Chapman, affectionately known as "Tank" by his family and friends, died March 22, 2013. Born in Charlotte, N.C. on November 21, 1926, he was the son of the late John Franklin Chapman, Sr. of Newport News, Virginia and the late Martha Ann Corbitt of Salem, Virginia. Mr. Chapman graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Science degree and from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Business Administration degree. He joined the Naval Air Corp in 1943, was ordered to the Navy V-5 unit at Newberry College and transferred to the NROTC unit at the University of South Carolina in 1944. He was commissioned in 1946 and ordered to the aircraft carrier Shangri-la, participating in the atom bomb tests conducted at Bikini Atol in the South Pacific. He was recalled to active duty for the Korean conflict, serving as a Lieutenant, USNR, aboard the USS New Kent and later the USS Minos. In 1943, he was employed by the Newport News Shipbuilding Co. of Virginia, and after the war worked for an investment firm in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Humble Oil Company of Houston, Texas in off-shore oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, and later was a general partner in the Chesapeake Exploration Company prospecting for titanium deposits in the Chesapeake Bay. Upon completion of this project, he then commenced his career in banking by joining the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, later became associated with State-Planters Bank of Richmond as an investment manager and also served as an instructor of economics at the University of Richmond. He qualified for the professional designation of Chartered Financial Analyst. Having married the late Emily Graham of Columbia, he moved to Columbia to join the South Carolina National Bank's Trust Department as an Investment Manager, and was later named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the bank responsible for asset and liability management, bank investments, and the Bond and Trust Departments. He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Forest Lake Club, the Pine Tree Hunt Club, the Jamestowne Society, and the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of South Carolina. Surviving are his wife, Grace Hutchinson Chapman; children, John Franklin Chapman, III (Lisa); Ann Chapman Faulks (Lee); William Lee Chapman (Shannon); Augustus Graham Chapman (Page); step-children, Catharine Goodwyn deLoach (Dwight); Thomas Jefferson Goodwyn, Jr. (Marci); sister, Martha Ann Chapman Toombes of Salt Lake City, Utah, a step sister, Zane Miller Hoyt (Mitchell) of Lopez Island, WA; 17 grandchildren, Graham and Frank Chapman; Emily, Sara, and Roy Faulks; Wills, Charles and Bonnie Chapman; Graham, Elliott, Edward and Elinor Chapman; Henry and Thomas deLoach; Daniel, Grayson and Ellie Goodwyn. He was predeceased by his first wife, Emily Graham Chapman; and his sister, Lucy Lee Chapman Morris of Denver, Colorado. The family would like to thank the staff of Hospice House of Columbia for their loving care and Rev. Charles Davis Jr. for his friendship and support. Memorials may be made to Trinity Foundation, 1100 Sumter St., Columbia, SC 29201.