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EspañolBILL G. CHAPMAN
'Billy Gene "Bill" Chapman' (October 11, 1928 - August 26, 2007), known as 'Bill G. Chapman', was a blind advocate for visually impaired persons, principally in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. The founder of Vision Loss Technology, he authored ''Coping With Macular Degeneration'' and ''Coping With Vision Loss: Maximizing What You Can See and Do'' (cowritten with George H. Pollock in 2001) as well as numerous journal articles. He supplied aids to enable the blind to function as otherwise sighted.
Chapman was born in Chickasha, the seat of Grady County in south central Oklahoma, to the late Helen and Talford Chapman. He graduated in 1950 from Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee. 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. He was medically retired from the Air Force in 1969, having attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.
In 1973, when legally blind, he procured his doctorate from Texas Tech University in Lubbock in the fields of Rehabilitation Administration and Rehabilitation Counseling, having graduated with high honors. Chapman was a member of Macular Degeneration International, the Council for Citizens with Low Vision, the Association for Macular Diseases.
Chapman married his high school sweetheart, the former Katherine Dutton]] in Chickasha in 1951. They had three children: David Chapman and wife Jan of Austin, Melody C. Deaver and husband, Ricky, of San Antonio, and Jane Stubblefield and husband Michael of Lewisville, Texas. There were also five grandchildren. Chapman was also survived by a sister, Lawana Case, and husband, Charles, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and a brother, Richard Chapman, and wife, Mary, of Yukon, Oklahoma.
Chapman died Sunday in Lubbock. Services were held in Lubbock on August 30, 2007, at the Second Baptist Church, of which Chapman was a member. Interment was in the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.
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Chapman was born in Chickasha, the seat of Grady County in south central Oklahoma, to the late Helen and Talford Chapman. He graduated in 1950 from Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee. 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. He was medically retired from the Air Force in 1969, having attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.
In 1973, when legally blind, he procured his doctorate from Texas Tech University in Lubbock in the fields of Rehabilitation Administration and Rehabilitation Counseling, having graduated with high honors. Chapman was a member of Macular Degeneration International, the Council for Citizens with Low Vision, the Association for Macular Diseases.
Chapman married his high school sweetheart, the former Katherine Dutton]] in Chickasha in 1951. They had three children: David Chapman and wife Jan of Austin, Melody C. Deaver and husband, Ricky, of San Antonio, and Jane Stubblefield and husband Michael of Lewisville, Texas. There were also five grandchildren. Chapman was also survived by a sister, Lawana Case, and husband, Charles, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and a brother, Richard Chapman, and wife, Mary, of Yukon, Oklahoma.
Chapman died Sunday in Lubbock. Services were held in Lubbock on August 30, 2007, at the Second Baptist Church, of which Chapman was a member. Interment was in the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.
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