Zell Chapman of Portales died Jan. 7, 2014, in Clovis. She was 99.
Mrs. Chapman was a farm wife, dedicated volunteer, and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She loved to learn and to travel, going on international trips to Africa, Europe and the Middle East into her 70s.
Clara Zell Brown was born Aug. 29, 1914, in Royal, Oklahoma, near Marlow in Stephens County, to Mary Ethel Anderson Brown and Troy Lee Brown. The family later settled in the Richland-Highway-Pep area in eastern New Mexico.
Zell dreamed of going to college in Portales, so she saved her earnings and moved to town to take high school classes her senior year. Though family needs during the Great Depression interfered with her college plans, she later took many classes at Eastern New Mexico University.
She married Allen Chapman, her beloved husband of 59 years, on July 4, 1936. They had two children, Don and Darlene. The family farmed in the Causey and Dora communities for many years, where Zell volunteered with the schools and her church and served as a 4-H leader and Extension Homemakers member.
After moving to Portales in the late 1960s, she was active in First Baptist Church, Woman's Club, Hospital Auxiliary, Roosevelt County Historical Society, Garden Club and La Escalera Art Guild. She served as state president of New Mexico Extension Homemakers Clubs and earned a 50-year membership pin. She was honored as Pioneer Woman of the Year at the New Mexico State Fair.
She married G.L. Taylor, her second husband, in 1997.
She was preceded in death by eight siblings, her husband, Allen, in 1996; her son, Don, in 2008; and her daughter, Darlene, in 2009. She is survived by her second husband, G.L.; four grandchildren: Julie Chapman McLelland, Sharon Chapman, D'Lyn Ford and Aaron Dickson; and seven great-grandchildren.
Published in the Portales News-Tribune on Jan. 11, 2014.
Mrs. Chapman was a farm wife, dedicated volunteer, and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She loved to learn and to travel, going on international trips to Africa, Europe and the Middle East into her 70s.
Clara Zell Brown was born Aug. 29, 1914, in Royal, Oklahoma, near Marlow in Stephens County, to Mary Ethel Anderson Brown and Troy Lee Brown. The family later settled in the Richland-Highway-Pep area in eastern New Mexico.
Zell dreamed of going to college in Portales, so she saved her earnings and moved to town to take high school classes her senior year. Though family needs during the Great Depression interfered with her college plans, she later took many classes at Eastern New Mexico University.
She married Allen Chapman, her beloved husband of 59 years, on July 4, 1936. They had two children, Don and Darlene. The family farmed in the Causey and Dora communities for many years, where Zell volunteered with the schools and her church and served as a 4-H leader and Extension Homemakers member.
After moving to Portales in the late 1960s, she was active in First Baptist Church, Woman's Club, Hospital Auxiliary, Roosevelt County Historical Society, Garden Club and La Escalera Art Guild. She served as state president of New Mexico Extension Homemakers Clubs and earned a 50-year membership pin. She was honored as Pioneer Woman of the Year at the New Mexico State Fair.
She married G.L. Taylor, her second husband, in 1997.
She was preceded in death by eight siblings, her husband, Allen, in 1996; her son, Don, in 2008; and her daughter, Darlene, in 2009. She is survived by her second husband, G.L.; four grandchildren: Julie Chapman McLelland, Sharon Chapman, D'Lyn Ford and Aaron Dickson; and seven great-grandchildren.
Published in the Portales News-Tribune on Jan. 11, 2014.
Zell Chapman of Portales died Jan. 7, 2014, in Clovis. She was 99.
Mrs. Chapman was a farm wife, dedicated volunteer, and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She loved to learn and to travel, going on international trips to Africa, Europe and the Middle East into her 70s.
Clara Zell Brown was born Aug. 29, 1914, in Royal, Oklahoma, near Marlow in Stephens County, to Mary Ethel Anderson Brown and Troy Lee Brown. The family later settled in the Richland-Highway-Pep area in eastern New Mexico.
Zell dreamed of going to college in Portales, so she saved her earnings and moved to town to take high school classes her senior year. Though family needs during the Great Depression interfered with her college plans, she later took many classes at Eastern New Mexico University.
She married Allen Chapman, her beloved husband of 59 years, on July 4, 1936. They had two children, Don and Darlene. The family farmed in the Causey and Dora communities for many years, where Zell volunteered with the schools and her church and served as a 4-H leader and Extension Homemakers member.
After moving to Portales in the late 1960s, she was active in First Baptist Church, Woman's Club, Hospital Auxiliary, Roosevelt County Historical Society, Garden Club and La Escalera Art Guild. She served as state president of New Mexico Extension Homemakers Clubs and earned a 50-year membership pin. She was honored as Pioneer Woman of the Year at the New Mexico State Fair.
She married G.L. Taylor, her second husband, in 1997.
She was preceded in death by eight siblings, her husband, Allen, in 1996; her son, Don, in 2008; and her daughter, Darlene, in 2009. She is survived by her second husband, G.L.; four grandchildren: Julie Chapman McLelland, Sharon Chapman, D'Lyn Ford and Aaron Dickson; and seven great-grandchildren.
Published in the Portales News-Tribune on Jan. 11, 2014.
Mrs. Chapman was a farm wife, dedicated volunteer, and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She loved to learn and to travel, going on international trips to Africa, Europe and the Middle East into her 70s.
Clara Zell Brown was born Aug. 29, 1914, in Royal, Oklahoma, near Marlow in Stephens County, to Mary Ethel Anderson Brown and Troy Lee Brown. The family later settled in the Richland-Highway-Pep area in eastern New Mexico.
Zell dreamed of going to college in Portales, so she saved her earnings and moved to town to take high school classes her senior year. Though family needs during the Great Depression interfered with her college plans, she later took many classes at Eastern New Mexico University.
She married Allen Chapman, her beloved husband of 59 years, on July 4, 1936. They had two children, Don and Darlene. The family farmed in the Causey and Dora communities for many years, where Zell volunteered with the schools and her church and served as a 4-H leader and Extension Homemakers member.
After moving to Portales in the late 1960s, she was active in First Baptist Church, Woman's Club, Hospital Auxiliary, Roosevelt County Historical Society, Garden Club and La Escalera Art Guild. She served as state president of New Mexico Extension Homemakers Clubs and earned a 50-year membership pin. She was honored as Pioneer Woman of the Year at the New Mexico State Fair.
She married G.L. Taylor, her second husband, in 1997.
She was preceded in death by eight siblings, her husband, Allen, in 1996; her son, Don, in 2008; and her daughter, Darlene, in 2009. She is survived by her second husband, G.L.; four grandchildren: Julie Chapman McLelland, Sharon Chapman, D'Lyn Ford and Aaron Dickson; and seven great-grandchildren.
Published in the Portales News-Tribune on Jan. 11, 2014.
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