Gay Murray Chappell was born 25 June 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and passed away on 10 April 2014 in Provo, Utah.
Her family moved to Glendale, AZ, during her junior year of high school. She earned a degree in interior design from Woodbury College, Whittier, CA, and returned to Arizona, where she met and married a handsome, charming Air Force man from North Carolina, Matthew Earson Chappell, in 1953. Her duties as an Air Force wife for the next 21 years took her to Colorado Springs, Colorado; Tucson, Arizona; Clark Air Base, Philippines; Washington DC; and Montgomery, Alabama. When Matt retired, they lived in Jarvisburg, NC, for 38 years, where they served their family, church, and community. She worked for many years at the original Cotton Gin, where she made many friends. She and Matt were regular Red Cross blood donors and served "the elderly" of their community in many ways, even after they qualified for that distinction themselves.
Gay loved to travel and was a lifelong learner, especially of words and language. She played Scrabble weekly at the Currituck Senior Center, and even played Words With Friends when she joined the computer age in the past year and a half. She was always looking up in the sky when anything airborne caught her attention, and she roused her children out of bed to watch all the early space launches. She also loved music–classical, show music, patriotic, anything nice and smooth, especially Eddy Arnold, Mario Lanza, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Rather than stuff, she gave her family experiences in the form of adventures to famous places, complete with trivia worthy of the Jeopardy fan that she was.
Mrs Chappell is survived by sons Jeff (Theresa), Herriman UT: John, Orlando FL and Jarvisburg; Mark, Nampa ID; and daughter Carolyn Nelson, Lehi UT; 17 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Matthew Earson Chappell; parents, John Sandison and Maurine Gerstenschlaeger Murray; brother John (Jack) Murray; sister Elaine Woods; and granddaughter Hailee Elise Chappell.
Funeral services will be held Friday, 18 April 2014, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 610 West 100 South, Lindon, UT 84042, with burial to follow next to her husband at Utah Veterans Memorial Park, Bluffdale, UT. Arrangements by Wing Mortuary, with an online guest book at wingmortuary.com
Her family moved to Glendale, AZ, during her junior year of high school. She earned a degree in interior design from Woodbury College, Whittier, CA, and returned to Arizona, where she met and married a handsome, charming Air Force man from North Carolina, Matthew Earson Chappell, in 1953. Her duties as an Air Force wife for the next 21 years took her to Colorado Springs, Colorado; Tucson, Arizona; Clark Air Base, Philippines; Washington DC; and Montgomery, Alabama. When Matt retired, they lived in Jarvisburg, NC, for 38 years, where they served their family, church, and community. She worked for many years at the original Cotton Gin, where she made many friends. She and Matt were regular Red Cross blood donors and served "the elderly" of their community in many ways, even after they qualified for that distinction themselves.
Gay loved to travel and was a lifelong learner, especially of words and language. She played Scrabble weekly at the Currituck Senior Center, and even played Words With Friends when she joined the computer age in the past year and a half. She was always looking up in the sky when anything airborne caught her attention, and she roused her children out of bed to watch all the early space launches. She also loved music–classical, show music, patriotic, anything nice and smooth, especially Eddy Arnold, Mario Lanza, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Rather than stuff, she gave her family experiences in the form of adventures to famous places, complete with trivia worthy of the Jeopardy fan that she was.
Mrs Chappell is survived by sons Jeff (Theresa), Herriman UT: John, Orlando FL and Jarvisburg; Mark, Nampa ID; and daughter Carolyn Nelson, Lehi UT; 17 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Matthew Earson Chappell; parents, John Sandison and Maurine Gerstenschlaeger Murray; brother John (Jack) Murray; sister Elaine Woods; and granddaughter Hailee Elise Chappell.
Funeral services will be held Friday, 18 April 2014, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 610 West 100 South, Lindon, UT 84042, with burial to follow next to her husband at Utah Veterans Memorial Park, Bluffdale, UT. Arrangements by Wing Mortuary, with an online guest book at wingmortuary.com
Gay Murray Chappell was born 25 June 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and passed away on 10 April 2014 in Provo, Utah.
Her family moved to Glendale, AZ, during her junior year of high school. She earned a degree in interior design from Woodbury College, Whittier, CA, and returned to Arizona, where she met and married a handsome, charming Air Force man from North Carolina, Matthew Earson Chappell, in 1953. Her duties as an Air Force wife for the next 21 years took her to Colorado Springs, Colorado; Tucson, Arizona; Clark Air Base, Philippines; Washington DC; and Montgomery, Alabama. When Matt retired, they lived in Jarvisburg, NC, for 38 years, where they served their family, church, and community. She worked for many years at the original Cotton Gin, where she made many friends. She and Matt were regular Red Cross blood donors and served "the elderly" of their community in many ways, even after they qualified for that distinction themselves.
Gay loved to travel and was a lifelong learner, especially of words and language. She played Scrabble weekly at the Currituck Senior Center, and even played Words With Friends when she joined the computer age in the past year and a half. She was always looking up in the sky when anything airborne caught her attention, and she roused her children out of bed to watch all the early space launches. She also loved music–classical, show music, patriotic, anything nice and smooth, especially Eddy Arnold, Mario Lanza, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Rather than stuff, she gave her family experiences in the form of adventures to famous places, complete with trivia worthy of the Jeopardy fan that she was.
Mrs Chappell is survived by sons Jeff (Theresa), Herriman UT: John, Orlando FL and Jarvisburg; Mark, Nampa ID; and daughter Carolyn Nelson, Lehi UT; 17 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Matthew Earson Chappell; parents, John Sandison and Maurine Gerstenschlaeger Murray; brother John (Jack) Murray; sister Elaine Woods; and granddaughter Hailee Elise Chappell.
Funeral services will be held Friday, 18 April 2014, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 610 West 100 South, Lindon, UT 84042, with burial to follow next to her husband at Utah Veterans Memorial Park, Bluffdale, UT. Arrangements by Wing Mortuary, with an online guest book at wingmortuary.com
Her family moved to Glendale, AZ, during her junior year of high school. She earned a degree in interior design from Woodbury College, Whittier, CA, and returned to Arizona, where she met and married a handsome, charming Air Force man from North Carolina, Matthew Earson Chappell, in 1953. Her duties as an Air Force wife for the next 21 years took her to Colorado Springs, Colorado; Tucson, Arizona; Clark Air Base, Philippines; Washington DC; and Montgomery, Alabama. When Matt retired, they lived in Jarvisburg, NC, for 38 years, where they served their family, church, and community. She worked for many years at the original Cotton Gin, where she made many friends. She and Matt were regular Red Cross blood donors and served "the elderly" of their community in many ways, even after they qualified for that distinction themselves.
Gay loved to travel and was a lifelong learner, especially of words and language. She played Scrabble weekly at the Currituck Senior Center, and even played Words With Friends when she joined the computer age in the past year and a half. She was always looking up in the sky when anything airborne caught her attention, and she roused her children out of bed to watch all the early space launches. She also loved music–classical, show music, patriotic, anything nice and smooth, especially Eddy Arnold, Mario Lanza, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Rather than stuff, she gave her family experiences in the form of adventures to famous places, complete with trivia worthy of the Jeopardy fan that she was.
Mrs Chappell is survived by sons Jeff (Theresa), Herriman UT: John, Orlando FL and Jarvisburg; Mark, Nampa ID; and daughter Carolyn Nelson, Lehi UT; 17 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Matthew Earson Chappell; parents, John Sandison and Maurine Gerstenschlaeger Murray; brother John (Jack) Murray; sister Elaine Woods; and granddaughter Hailee Elise Chappell.
Funeral services will be held Friday, 18 April 2014, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 610 West 100 South, Lindon, UT 84042, with burial to follow next to her husband at Utah Veterans Memorial Park, Bluffdale, UT. Arrangements by Wing Mortuary, with an online guest book at wingmortuary.com
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