Waterotwn Daily Times - December 14, 1997
Jefferson County, N. Y.
Dudley B. Chapman -- Retired Bank President
DEXTER -- Dudley B. Chapman, 81, County Route 59, a great-great-grandfather, former bank president, town councilman and school board member, died early Saturday in his home.
Mr. Chapman was a cost accountant at Dexter Sulphite Pulp and Paper Co. from 1940 to 1944, when he went to work for the First National Bank of Dexter. He was named assistant cashier at the bank later that year and a director in 1964.
He was promoted to cashier and vice president in 1965 and elected the bank's president and secretary in 1967. He retired from the bank, then the National Bank of Northern New York, as president and manager of the Dexter branch in 1978. The bank later became part of what is now Key Bank.
Born June 11, 1916, in Dexter, a son of Ora and Genevieve Voodre Chapman, he graduated from Dexter Union High School in 1936, the Watertown School of Commerce and the Bankers School of Agriculture at Cornell University, Ithaca, in 1955.
On Sept. 12, 1940, he married Edith G. Fowler, who died on Jan. 31, 1977. He married Lois A. Roof on Dec. 26, 1977. She died Oct. 14, 1990.
Mr. Chapman was a member of the Watertown Elks, Watertown Eagles and Pine Drive Hunting Club of Port Leyden, a former Brownville town councilman, member of the Dexter Fire Department, executive secretary of the Jefferson County Civil Service Commission, chairman of Brownville Town Republican Committee, a Dexter school board member, vice president and president of the Jefferson-Lewis Counties Bankers association, and a Jefferson County key banker for the New York State Bankers association.
Surviving are his companion, Mary Van deWalker, two daughters, Mrs. Terry (Phyllis M.) Chase and Mrs. Michael (Janet A.) Parks, both of Dexter; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandchild, and nieces and nephews.
A son, Clarence H., died in 1967. Other family members who died before him were his brothers, Gilbert; three sisters, Mildred Mitchell, Madeline Marsaw and Dolly Chapman; and a granddaughter.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Smith-Savage Post of the American Legion with Rev. Mario Gazzilli, pastor of Dexter United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Dexter Cemetery at the family's convenience.
There will be no calling hours.
Funeral arrangements are with Johnson Funeral Home.
Donations may be made to Jefferson County Hospice or the General Brown Booster Club.
Note: There was another Dudley Chapman whose obit appears in this system -- he was from Theresa and died in 1933.
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