Patricia A. Chapman

December 28, 1937 – January 11, 2015

Funeral services will be held on Friday, January 16, 2015 at Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home of Killeen. Interment will follow in the Killeen City Cemetery. A Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, January 15, 2015 at Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home of Killeen.

Pat was born December 28, 1937 on the family farm in Maxdale but soon after, they moved to a farm near Lampasas. When she was 10, her father died of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) and the remaining family eventually moved to Killeen where she met her life-long love, Wayland Chapman in the sixth grade. During high school, Pat played on the basketball team, and was an FHA and Class officer. She graduated in 1956 and married Wayland on November 18, 1956.

After various jobs in the high school office, a soda shop, and the office of Dr. Whitten, Pat became a homemaker where she reared three boys. To help with the boys’ college expenses, she went back to work with KISD as an Educational Aide in 1980. Soon after, she was diagnosed with PKD and began dialysis treatments in 1987 but continued working for another 6 years. In 1998, she received a kidney transplant and just a few years later survived breast cancer.

Pat was also a faithful member of the Killeen Church of Christ where she was a strong example of hospitality and caregiving for many church members with illness or other difficulties. Most of all, she loved being a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.

Pat was preceded in death by her husband, Hubert Wayland Chapman of Killeen; Parents, William Earl Wright and Linnie Eldie (Williams) Wright of Lampasas; Sister, Wilma (Wright) Turner of Lampasas, and Sister, Merle (Wright) Forsythe of Killeen.

Pat is survived by Son, David Wayland Chapman and his wife Shelly (Callon) of Belton and their sons Matt, Reagan and Ethan; Son, Gary Dale Chapman and his wife Kim (Walker) of Haslet, TX and their daughters Maddie and Morgan and granddaughter, Abigail; Son, Paul Jeffrey Chapman of Belton; Sister, Barbara (Wright) Reed and her husband Ray; and several nieces, nephews, friends and numerous brothers and sisters in Christ.

In lieu of flowers, contributions could be sent to Cherokee Home for Children, PO Box 295, Cherokee, TX 76832-9989.