Education
He graduated in 1950 from Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee.
He graduated in 1950 from Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee.
Coping with Vision Loss consists of thirty-six chapters, one devoted to macular degeneration. Chapman also wrote various journal articles and supplied aids to enable the blind to function as otherwise sighted individuals. Chapman was born in Chickasha, the seat of Grady County in south central Oklahoma, to the late Helen and Talford Chapman.
In 1954, he completed Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Kansas.
Thereafter, he entered the United States Air Force and served in Louisiana, Labrador, Baffin Island, California, Oregon, Great Britain, and Texas. In 1973, then legally blind, Chapman procured his Editor.D. from Texas Technical University in Lubbock in the fields of "Rehabilitation Administration" and "Rehabilitation Counseling".
In 1951, Chapman married his high school sweetheart, the former Katherine Dutton, in Chickasha. There were also five grandchildren.
Chapman died in Lubbock.
Services were held there on August 30, 2007, at the Second Baptist Church, of which Chapman was a member. Interment was at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.
Chapman was a member of Macular Degeneration International, the Council for Citizens with Low Vision, and the Association for Macular Diseases.